More confidence

The second consult didn’t go nearly as well as the first.  I don’t doubt that both places have equally competent surgeons, but I had a much better feeling at the first place. The second place just seemed like they were in a hurry to schedule a surgery.  Like they just wanted me to pay them and get it over with.  Also, to my surprise, the recommended all kinds of additional procedures including breast augmentation.  I’m sitting there with naturally average-size breasts and they are telling me I’d "feel more confident" if they were bigger.  I think that was the precise moment I decided for sure I wanted to have my surgery at the other place.

So my second letter from this new therapist should come this week and then I will be able to actually schedule the surgery.  I’m really looking forward to having a date picked out so I can stop wondering when it will be and start planning for it.  I am planning to run the Miami Marathon with Megan at the end of January, so I’m actually thinking February would be the best time for the surgery.

With that decision more or less out of the way, Guy and I have been talking more about our wedding.  We had originally wanted to do it this summer, but as it is already spring we don’t think we’ll have enough time now to plan something.  We discussed either having the wedding in the fall, or waiting until after the surgery.  Finally we decided we just needed to pick a date and be done with it.  Our hesitation about actually setting a date has been what has kept us from really planning anything.  So September 15th is it.  It’s decided.  That gives us enough time to plan something, and it is also early enough in the year that we can most likely do something outdoors.

In other news, we finally found another apartment in our neighborhood and Cindy and Jayson are moving.  I have mixed feelings about the whole thing.  I feel like I’ve been a mother-figure to Cindy while she’s lived here and I actually worry about her having to live on her own.  I don’t think she is responsible enough to take care of herself and her soon-to-be two children.  But maybe sending her off is just what she needs to learn to take responsibility.  

But on the other side, I am THRILLED to have this apartment for just Guy and me, with no family and no babies.  Maybe we’ll get a dog.