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DATE!!!!

I have a surgery date!!!!!!!

March 24th!!!!!

Can't believe it!!! I may throw up.

Also the receptionist couldn't find my charts (ha) but she was sure that we were just doing UPPER jaw surgery. That sounds fantastic because I'm hoping for a quicker recovery time.

Originally the surgeon had said upper, then I met with him face-to-face and he said double, but now it's just upper. Yay!

Pre-op appointment on March 11th! Oh my goodness. Amelia will be 8 months old! I'm glad. I feel a little more at ease about the whole thing since she will be a little older. I need to keep reminding myself that she won't remember this AT ALL. It is not going to affect her in the long run. She will still love me. LOL

Me- VERY happy to have an end date to this part of the process.

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  1. KJanuary 29, 2014 at 10:51 PM

    Yay Larissa we are only a week apart!! So so so exciting! And our pre op is on the same day! We will have to swap stories about our experiences with it :) congrats on getting a date!

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    1. Larissa Y.January 30, 2014 at 3:17 PM

      Wow that's crazy! I will be looking to your blog the week in between them for some idea of what's in store!! But then I will actually have to go through it! Good luck to us both!

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