Last Minute Advice
I wanted to thank you ladies for the advice and support. It's been mostly uneventful except that it took the surgeon 20 minutes to cut out scar tissue from around my pancreas from a 2007 episode of pancreatitis. My doc has commented twice on the fact that I described his personality as stiff. This was based on some pretty cut and dry office visits where one's personality, I suppose, doesn't have a chance to shine. Anyway, little lesson for me (and others) on that one.