Day 231: We have a date.

The title is pretty self explanatory for this. Yesterday, my Cardiac Liason Nurse was in contact, and I have a date for my operation. It will be on Thursday 25th of July. That makes it 'Day 253' in my timeline on my blog. That's 22 days away from now.

My preops are going to be the week before on the 18th. 

I am terrified.

I haven't cried about it yet, which I was expecting to have done so by now, but I'm sure there will be tears very soon. I have now discussed with my Parents and Boyfriend about when they're taking time off work, working half days and all that kind of thing. 

It is slightly later than intended, by about 2 weeks, but actually I'm happy about that as I now have 2 weeks to have a bit of a 'Summer' after finishing my job here in Kent and moving back home at the weekend. I will still be well enough to go back to Uni in October, even if the Boyfriend will have to move lots more boxes as I still won't be allowed to lift them at this point! 

I think the next two weeks are going to be rather up and down in terms of emotions, trying to enjoy my break but not looking forward to what's about to happen. I text a few of my closest friends yesterday and they were all wonderful, people are already asking where I'm going to be in hospital so that they can come and see me and talking about coming and keeping me company when I'm back at home. You lovely people know who you all are and I am very grateful for all of you.

Also very grateful for the support from everyone on the 'Patches- Bravehearts' group on Facebook. And talking of the Bravehearts, good luck to Allie, who found out that her surgery is going to be 4 days after mine, we really are in this together... except for the small matter of being on different continents! 

This blog will be updated more and more now I feel, during the run up and the whole thing. I have already got my Mum to agree to write a quick post to let people know how the operation goes.

Thank you to all you wonderful people xxx