I can hope

“A quiet positive thought changed it all”Avantik

For 3 weeks,  I’ve been trying to schedule the damn pre op consultation appointment with the hospital in LA.

The way the program through my work is, they only cover the flight and hotel for the surgery.

Because I’m out of state, and they don’t have anyone licensed in Oregon, that has caused these weeks of delay as they have been’sending emails’ internally to the doctor and his team to figure out if I could have my appointment switched to telehealth if I drove to the northern to of CA (it’s about 3 hours, so was doable)

The fight has been that I could do that, but it would push my appointments out further, and at this point, I was steadfast that I wasn’t allowing that to happen.

Well, Finally. Finally! There is some movement

Friday, right as we were about to arrive at the trailhead for our hike, I found out that it was approved that my work program will cover my pre op trip as well!

So I’m going to LA on the 18 th for the consultation appointment on the 19th! Once I have that appointment, they are able to finally schedule the surgery.

I felt a huge amount of relief wash over me as we stepped off into the wilderness. 10 lbs listed of my chest as I finally felt like a plan was starting to come together. My nervous system released.

My goal is that everything is done, I’m alive, I completed being radioactive, and completely healed, before Thanksgiving.

I don’t know if that’s a realistic timeline. Frankly, probably not.

But, I can hope.

A girl can hope.

In the mean time, we are doing a short Backpacking trip this weekend. I haven’t done this in the 5 years since Patagonia. It’s hard. But very rewarding.