The phone call - I have a date!!!!!

At work the open enrollment for our Insuarance was coming up and we had two weeks to change. So I called the Center and spoke to the wonderful Christine on November 5th and explained to her my battle with the insurance company. I needed a tentative date so they could submit it to my insurance carrier for authorization prior to the end of our open enrollment. I hung up with her and within 3 hours, I got a phone call from the scheduling clerk and gave me a surgery date of the 11th. My first thought was overjoyed - I finally did it, so I jumped at the opportunitiy. This left me with 3 appointments and we were already midday Wednesday. I had to go do a pre-surgical screening physical with the clinic, I was able to get squeezed in the next day. Then I had to meet the surgeon on Monday - a day he usually doesn't see his patients. But I made it. I was so overwhelmed and so happy at the same time. I shared all the with my family that day - they were scared, and started asking lots of questions, that I haven't really answered for them yet. But all is well, they were just concerned for my welfare.