It's Official: I Am Having Surgery In Two Weeks

Just when you think all of the doctor visits are coming to an end...I went for an allergist mandated consultation with an ENT.  The doctor deemed it medically necessary to fix my deviated septum and improve airflow in my nose.  As a result, I will be going in for outpatient surgery in two weeks, with two weeks of recovery after.  I am really hoping that this is the final piece of the equation.

It is hard not to think that my body is betraying me, a day at a time.  I feel like everything is breaking down.  I know that's the catastrophic thinking at work, but it doesn't make everything that I have gone through any less scary.  I find that I am a whole lot more anxious on a daily basis about my health than I have ever been.  I think about how debilitating the PTSD and anxiety have been for me over the past few weeks and I feel guilty.  I made it home.  What right do I have to complain?  I think about the guys I knew who didn't make it back and I feel like the world's biggest failure.

Alright.  Enough of the pity party.  This is not who I am.  I am better than this and tougher than this.  Focus on what it going right.  Focus on the local advocacy efforts that are coming together very rapidly.  Focus on your family and your amazing daughter who is days away from telling you all about her days in English.  Focus on the beautiful weather.  Anything.

I guess we'll see how things turn out.  It is what it is.  I am done pushing back against the things I cannot change.  Time to accept what life throws at me as best I can.