I've got my next consult date

Well, my appointment with the ortho surgeon has been set:  April 12th -- 1:45pm.

It just happens to be a Tuesday.

Which just happens to be my physio day.

Which I just happen to always schedule for 1:15pm.

Soooooooo, rework required of my physio appointment.

But ooops.

My calendar shows that I also have a 10:30am appointment with my ENT specialist that date (that's the vacuum-my-ears procedure that I have to undergo every four months).

You had to know that something like this would happen.

My plan?

Keep the ENT appointment (it's a good thing to be able to hear well when visiting a new doctor, I think).

Schedule physio for the down time between that appointment and the ortho surgeon appointment.

Grab lunch at Tim Hortons at the Hospital before hitting the Clinic to see the surgeon (they're all in the same place and one ends up paying maximum daily rate at the two hour mark anyway).

Then finally go home.

I want John to accompany me at the ortho surgeon appointment.

That means we will, together, have to leave home by 9:30 that morning.

John will have to sit and wait while I'm getting my ears vacuumed (fortunately, that's a five minute procedure at best).  Then he'll again have to sit and wait while I'm at physio (sometimes he's able to take advantage of the time and go somewhere nearby to take photos).  Then we'll go to see the ortho surgeon and hear what he has to say (my best friend sister, who also just happens to be one of his patients, tells me that he reminds her of Dr. Sweet from the TV show Bones).

We probably won't get home much before 3:30pm.  Another long day away from home.

These kinds of days are hard on me, on lots of levels.  But they take a toll on John too, mainly because they involve so much waiting around for him.  But he is usually very gracious about it.

We regard these types of days as opportunities to hang out together, something of which we don't do nearly enough. I guess we'll have lots of opportunities for that during my recoup period, since I won't be able to drive for, I believe, six weeks following each surgery.

Between now and April 12th, I guess I'll continue obsessing about the whole thing, because that seems to be what I do!