Yup. I check into the surgery center at 6am tomorrow but got the call from the peds office that my youngest's strep culture came back positive for strep. So I ran and picked up the Amox and him at school (of course, we sent him today!! I'm going to be out of the office for 10 days!! I needed to work today and so did Daddy!!!) and we are now home with shows and a laptop.
I'm trying really really hard to keep the psycho-systematic symptoms at bay. I'm drinking fluids. I rested. However I also stopped at the Target Clinic to talk to the doc there just in case. He said that unless I have strep symptoms, he saw no need to do a culture...and that the first thing they'll do in the morning when they start the IV is put some antibiotics in anyway that would kill any strep I could have waiting to pop up. So. There ya go. Barring any headache or fever or sore throat, I'm proceeding with my tummy tuck and brachioplasty tomorrow.
My sweet friends are being so amazingly supportive. My husband is coming around. My kids are curious as to why I need this. My mom is being so wonderful - she'll be taking me on for Thanksgiving while my kids and husband head to celebrate with his family in Rochester. 24 hours from now, I anticipate I'll be back home with less skin and more pain. But the results....THAT is the part I'm most excited for. To not have to strategically hide or tuck in my excess skin will be amazing. Working out and not having my upper arms waving like a flag on a windy day will be so worth any kind of temporary discomfort I'll have for the next few weeks.
So I'll post some photos probably to kill some time in the upcoming days/weeks. For the curious but more for me to once again remind myself how far I've come.
