We've Got a Date.

So we finally scheduled.  The very first thing the kind lady asked me was, "When were you hoping to schedule?"  I had not expected to be asked like that.  Any day is equally inconvenient and there will never be a day I WANT to hand Max over for open heart surgery.  I naively told her I would need at least a week to prepare everyone...  She gave a little chuckle and told me they are now booking into August.  This means he will be missing some school.  This isn't so awful, crazy bad... I mean, we are quite used to the whole homeschooling thing.  With all his downtime, I assume we'll just keep learning anyway.  What else are we going to do??

I also asked her opinion of how long Max may be in the hospital.  Wow, was it different from what his cardiologist said.  She just laughed and told me the cardiologists usually over estimate a great deal.  It goes something like this:  1 night in CICU (parents can't spend the night in there... there's a story Max loves where Curious George is in the hospital and George cries when The Man in the Yellow Hat has to leave... thanks, George), 3 to 4 days or sometimes 5 to 6 days in the hospital.  Then... get this:  1 WEEK before he's up and running around again.  This is crazy different from the SIX weeks the cardiologist mentioned.  4 to 6 weeks until he can do PE again (because his breast plate will need this time to heal).  So while I still don't, you know, want to stop his heart and all, the recovery time isn't AS BAD as the picture the cardiologist painted.  I agree with Jason though, having a date somehow makes me a little more nervous... Now it's for real.

Anyway, I guess you want that date, huh???

Pre Op... all. dang. day.: August 6th
D-Day:  August 7th

Oh, Lordy, Lordy.