Sue and Rivergirl, thanks for the kind thoughts and ideas. My husband usually brings me a lei when he visits (he's living in Hawaii), so I look forward to that. He always brings something that's mainly purple, which I love.
JB, thanks for posting the recap of your recent surgery experience. It sounds like you're doing great! I'm thinking I'll have the reverse of your frozen thing, as right now all I have is time on my hands to obsess about the surgery (and its post-op issues), but right BEFORE surgery I'll have the anticipation of my husband arriving and then our daughter a few days post-op. I get to see my grandson again! They were just here in January (they live in NY), and I did not expect to see them again so soon. In fact, we got to celebrate our grandson's first birthday, which was pretty cool!
I always make it a point to tell the anesthesiologist prior to surgery that I have problems with nausea post-op; that way they add something to the mix before I wake up that helps control that. I'll DEFINITELY mention it this time!
