Thanks everyone! You're the best!!!

I saw the doctor today. My surgery is scheduled for July 7, 2010 at 9 am.

I could have gotten in on June 9, 2010, but the surgeon was a doctor that scares me to death and when I worked at my other job I saw him in action with patients on the ward, and I can't say that I remember seeing any patients happy with his level of care. How he is as a surgeon, I don't know. But he's older and retiring soon, but will still be working part-time in the clinics, so I wasn't prepared to put my life in his hands.

The doctor that I really wanted is about to go on maternity leave and she won't be back until October, and I don't want to wait that long, nor does my gynecologist want me to wait.

I'm happy with my choice of surgeons in the end. He's really nice, and he is a very good surgeon.

I'm putting my request in for 6 weeks leave, and I'm cancelling my 1 week of unpaid vacation at the end of this month, that I was really looking forward to taking. But I need to squirrel away some money because the 6 weeks I am off sick, are completely unpaid days.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi