Pre-Surgery

I'm really not nervous about this surgery on Wednesday and I think I've figured out why. Both daughters are also very relaxed about my going under the knife. And it's because we have had such adrenalin-filled events with Joe that this just doesn't seem too scary. Almost every time Joe has had surgery it has been preceded by a stressed drive to OSU Ross Heart Hospital, wondering if I would get there before the helicopter carrying him from Licking County. Almost all of his procedures have been life-threatening and life-determining. If the procedure didn't succeed, he'd die one way or the other -- either during the surgery as a consequence of it or afterwards because the problem wasn't fixed. Nothing was ever planned and certainly not relaxed as this has been. I have visited the unit, chatted with my doctor, and am very comfortable with the whole thing. Probably the only person stressed about this knee replacement surgery is Joe.