Significant event - Update 1

For those rabid followers, who have been begging and pleading for an update on my surgery.

I called my primary to setup an appointment for a "pre-op". That's Dr. speak for running blood tests and getting a release from a Dr. who supposedly knows me better than the specialist/cutter. I have a call into Dr. Gladstone to see if he will be on call Memorial Day weekend (just in case of complications) and to find out whether they're going to put me out or administer a local anesthesia. Never having gone through a real surgery, I completely forgot to ask about that.