The greatest freedom is the freedom of not needing to know what is going to happen next

It was American Thanksgiving yesterday, and we had to celebrate a little.  Jacqui and I were both off work and Peter took one of his million vacation days.  Poor Ty had to work though.  We spent it well – we watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the morning…

 

Then we went to see Skyfall in the afternoon, ate turkey sandwiches and pecan pie for dinner and had a fire and played dominoes for a while in the evening.  I was thankful for a slow, lazy day in the middle of all of this.

 

We talked things over after the appointment Wednesday, slept on it and Jacqui came to the conclusion that she wants to get this over with.  So she has phoned the surgeons office and hope to get a date soon.  Now we are not sure what soon really means – how full they are, but she is motivated to have this surgery sooner rather than later.  As we mentioned the other day, she has to have a few tests done before – one of which is in the pulmonary lab and that’s scheduled for next Wednesday (the 28^th). So that’s a start anyways. 

This would mean recovery over Christmas, which is a bad news/good news scenario – bad, we won’t be able to everything that we traditionally do, and good because it takes the stress away from having to do everything we traditionally do.

We would just hope that if she was to go in early that she would be home for Christmas – ideally that would mean having surgery no later than Dec 15^th,   with a good recovery.  The other option would be to have it between Christmas and New Years.  It would just be nice to start the New Year with the surgery behind us.  So that’s our prayer.

 I would just love to plan this all out on a schedule, but I am very (very) slowly learning that sometimes…

“The greatest freedom is the freedom

of not needing to know

what is going to happen next”

Oh man – I should be feeling very free!!!!! Still working on the surrender, patience, gratitude…