Surgery POSTPONED!!!! - ARGH!

I had done everything I was supposed to. I had my hospital bag packed. I had to give a urine sample for a pregnancy test and give more blood yesterday. I washed my belly with an iodine package. I was heading off to sleep....all was according to plan. At 10 PM my surgeon's partner calls me up and says that a lady has a life threatening condition that they need the "A" team for...which is my surgeon and his support group. My surgeon should call today or tommarrow to reschedule. Argh! I know my surgey is an elective procedure...but I have scheduled alot of things around this. My husband is in the army and he took leave for today's date not the end of the week...he is going to put in for an extension that he'll hopefully get. I have been working up to this day since January. I know the lady didn't try and have a life threatening cir****tance to just stress me out...it's just an unfortunate set of cir****tances. The surgeon apologized and said this has never happened as far as he knows and said they will work hard to schedule me in soon. I am having my surgery done on Fort Carson Army Base. I don't have to pay anything...not one dollar. So I really shouldn't complain. I am still fully committed to having this surgery...it's just a bit of the wind is taken out of my sail...so to speak. Now I am going to wait by my phone for my surgeon to call. Everyone wish for me an early reschedule date!

Well that just stinks! Keep your head up and remember that things happen for a reason. I hope you get your new date quickly and the delay is not unbearable! Dave

Keep your chin up Christal... Everything happens for a reason, honestly, it may not feel like it right now but things will work out the way they are supposed too. I'm on for Friday morning at 6:30 am - I don't know what I'd do if it happened to me, I guess I'd be disappointed but, I have found in my life Everything happens when and where it's supposed to happen. You've just had a practice run... next time it will be for real cause you know they would never do this to you twice, right? Good luck lady. Pat B.

The disappointment must be very hard to handle. When things like this happen to me, I always try to imagine "well what if it were my mother, (son, sister) needing the doctor's attention for an emergency?" I sure would want them to postpone whoever they needed to (non emregency) and care for my loved one. I don't know if that helps, however, it does help me to graciuosly accept the disruption and dissappointment. Blessings as you deal with this disruption and disappointment in your life.

You are not wrong to be UPSET! I'm scheduled for Tuesday, and if that happened to me I'd want to string somebody up by their toes from a tree. That is very NOT cool for them to change the date mid-stream like that. As far as I'm concerned MONEY has nothing to do with it! I have to admire your positive attitude! --Dave