We'll start with the good

sorry to those of you (gilia) who care- but I haven't blogged so much lately cause things have been pretty surgery-stress focused around here lately- mostly I've been spending a great deal of time dealing with doctors and insurance and parents and the surgery dilema in general- and that's not so fruitful in the way of blog material. so- we'll get to the good news- after much thought and deliberation- I am for sure having surgery (Arthroplasty or disc repair) on December 19th. This is awesome- finally- after 2 years of working towards this goal- I'll have surgery and hopefully get the process started that will HOPEFULLY lead to pain relief and good function in my jaws. Anyway- after the surgery I'll then spend 2 weeks at the farm with my mom crocheting, brushing up on my Hebrew, and pureeing up all kinda goodies. mmm- delicious. As far as the surgery itself-assuming that my discs will be viable- I'll be able to get braces on within four months- and then about a year after that- I'll have a combined double surgery on my upper and lower jaw. Both docs have agreed now that the likihood is there that I'll have to have the double upper and lower jaw surgery- which stinks. This second surgery is a WAY bigger deal as I've mentioned before- and will take 6-9 months total to recover from totally. This is all to say that basically come to find out- I won't be able to go to Library school until 2008- which is a blow. But- I'll deal with that and all the decisions that go along with it- like whether I should consider getting my masters in History at the U of A while I'm here- after I recover from surgery #1. Really that depends on how much I can handle. I mean working and going to all these doctors and all of that is taking a toll- and I need to take care of myself. But I feel time going by too.
Anyhow- other than surgery drama the main things in my life have been moving- the girls and I are moving this weekend- so that's crazy. Work's been ok- the work itself has been off and on pretty stressful because i'm behind- but my bosses are so nice and supportive and funny that I can handle anything I think. I'm pretty blessed.
k- keep it real.

Surgery is nigh...

So, it seems that if my parents and I can raise some serious funds by December 5th, then I will almost certainly be having the first of two jaw surgeries on December 19th, 2005. This is pretty good news actually, when I can forget about the money for a minute. Finally- after two years of working toward this goal- I'll be able to hopefully make a big step towards getting my jaw problems solved. After this first surgery (during which they will make incisions in my ears and find my slipped jaw discs and put them back in place and attach them with a steel pin to the condyle- that bone that goes up into your jaw joint) I will go through about a year of splints (that plastic thing in my mouth) and braces (not again! but oh yes- again) and then I'll have a second far more serious and hard-to-recover-from surgery next winter...IF, that is, everything goes well- which I'm hoping and praying it will. SO- if that's all happening as it should then I might be good to go as far as starting grad school at UT or UNC by Fall 2007. So- that's the plan. Just thought I'd try to get people up to date in a non-long-winded fashion.