I want to thank you all for your advice and your best wishes. Tomorrow we are driving to Shreveport where we (myself, my husband, and our daughter) will check into a hotel so we can relax a bit before the surgery Monday morning. I'm frightened but almost eager to get it done. At the same time, it's hard to even think about surgery because my mother died yesterday. And I'm disappointed and even angry that I will miss her funeral. But in my heart, I know she will be with me always.

So again, thank you and I will post again when I get out of the hospital.

Helen