JULY 13TH!!! maybe.

HA!
That's the answer I got. They are "aiming" for July 13th for surgery. AIMING FOR. There is still some test going on in Fargo on someone or other (God bless you, whoever you are!), but I am to plan on the 13th, unless I hear differently. On the 12th I will go in all day for final testing, meet again with the surgeon's etc.

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! THIRTEEN DAYS AWAY!!!!!! YAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!

I ordered my shirt today also. It is set to arrive between July 13th and 15th, but I bet it gets here sooner. :D I can't wait to see it.

There's been one aspect of this that I've looked at longer and harder than any other. I'm ready to tackle it completely now. I read a story by another soon to be donor (who knew her recipient) regarding the attention aspect.
Because, for her, she was surprised that she was constantly battling the want/need for attention from other regarding what she was doing.

And I have had someone halfway accuse me of doing it for attention. Because I am 1) A LEO (look it up! We're all about attention) and 2) since most of my life I have been an attention whore in one way or another, I really examined this.

Guess what.
I'm not doing it for attention. It's official.
If I just wanted attention, I would have kept my head shaved. My bald head got me lots of attention and it was exhausting. OR My hair could be bright blue if I wanted. I work at a hair place, and we can definitely get away with that. I could refuse to wear shoes just because I don't like them (like Michael Franti, and probably others), but I don't do that either. I don't have tattooes up and down my body, I don't have unusual piercings where people can see them. I haven't waxed my eyebrows off. I have gone streaking. I haven't convinced Cullen to go on a food strike with me to gain attention to something else, then called the media to let them know what we were doing.
I don't wear skimpy clothing that shows WAY too much. When I'm having a conversation with someone, I actually listen and pay attention to what they are saying, because I REALLY CARE. I have had to learn how to disconnect a little bit from others, as a matter of fact, because I can empathize to the point of feeling what they might be feeling. I've had to learn how to let others walk their own path.
I have never once, during someone's wedding or other special day, stolen the spotlight in any way, shape or form. I'm not even the girl who will get super loud in a store to make people look at her. Nope, not me!
No, the way that I get attention is by doing stupid things...like teasing all my hair straight up and running out of a room (at my mom's or aunts house) pretending I got electrocuted. Or hiding outside a bathroom, waiting to scare the hell out of whoever comes out. And let's face, it, if someone is going to have a camera out, I might as well be in the picture (funny enough, when I die, they will find surprisingly few pictures of me around. True Dat!). Around my OWN FAMILY, I don't mind completely dorking out. Even at work a little, which is like being around family. Or friends. haha. I'm a Leo. I think it'd be great fun to be on a stage in front of a whole crowd of people. But I'm not going to get on a stage in front of a whole crowd of people and take a dump, or something else attention-getting.
Nope!
The reason I (WE!!!!) do things like raise money for childrens cancer research, or do drives for the crisi senter or food drives or donate a kidney- the reason we do them is because it is OUR BELIEF that love is worth giving to the world. What we give out comes back. If we operate from the viewpoint that there is only ONE OF US HERE --- and therefore, we would do unto others as we would have done to us.... why WOULDN'T we do this stuff? People do things for other people ALL THE TIME! People donate to charities they love, give money to people in need, there are homeless shelters run by volunteers....and no one says that any of them are trying to get attention.
This surgery is not that big of a deal to me. It's a surgery and I hope someday it will stop being such a big deal to other people. You- YOU READIN THIS- are at a bigger risk of dying on your way home from work today than I am of having anything happen during surgery. Accidents happen ALL THE TIME. I'm not scared of anything. AND, I'm not doing it for attention. However, I WILL keep talking about it, I WILL talk about it afterwards, I WILL engage people in conversation about it, because what if one other person hears it, and feels the same way, and can share their spare?! Wouldn't that be incredible? And someone might see that as being attention seeking, and I supose if I make it about ME instead of about what we as humans can do for one another, it would be.
So, there. YAY. NOT doing it for attention.

THIRTEEN DAYS!