Max, we've come to the right place for accurate, up-to-date information and support from those who have traveled this road already and those of us who are just getting started on this journey.

Tina, I admire your attitude. Humour works well for us, too, although some of it remains between my husband and me - a lot of people don't appreciate our warped sense of what's funny :-).

We learned the first time around how surprisingly quickly the bizarre becomes ordinary and day to day life moves onward.

I'm hoping to get my surgery date when I meet with my surgeon Friday.

We're all rooting for each other.