Never could a girl be as glad to get her period as I was this afternoon. I finally am sure the laparoscopy is going to happen since my period is here. After 5 � days of spotting, it was about time. I was getting worried that it would come too late and I would have to cancel my surgery next Thursday. The longest period I've recorded is 12 days including pre- and post- period spotting. So if I start counting 5 days ago when I started spotting, the latest I would expect the post-period spotting to last would also be on Wednesday. Usually after my true period comes, it lasts for about five more days before the spotting is all gone. So I'm guessing that Tuesday will be the last day of spotting.

Earlier I was thinking that I was going to have to cancel the surgery if I was spotting the day before the surgery, but I just checked the literature from my doctor, and they said nothing about it. Maybe that was something I read at the web site of another doctor's office. or maybe I'm thinking about when I had the HSG or maybe I just dreamed it all. Who knows. I'm not sure why I'm so worried about this. It will probably all be okay.

Today just after school was dismissed, the secretary came into my room and said I had a phone call. I asked if it was about my sister-in-law. No one ever calls me at work, so I figured she had had her baby or something important like that. The secretary said that wasn't it, I had a call from the doctor's office.

It was my RE's office calling to schedule a pre-op. appointment wtih my doctor. It's scheduled for Monday at 3:30 p.m. in the office that's nearby, so I won't have to miss any more work. I'm glad I'll be able to get my questions answered, and hopefully find out that I can still have the surgery even if there is a tiny amount of spotting. The funny thing is that the doctor didn't even tell me I would need to see him again, so it was a bit of a surprise. It is a good surprise though, because it will make me feel more at ease. The literature from the hospital said that a nurse would be calling me to get information, but I guess my RE's office has you come in to their office to see their nurse instead. I should also be recieving a call one or two days before the surgery from the nurse at the hospital, so I still have to wait for that.

Tonight I'm going to fill out the patient information form from the hospital. It will make this surgery seem even more real.