Surgery to Intensive Care Unit

[Guest guest]

Okay ladies slap me silly before I duck for cover and

go under my blankets and don't come out. I am

scheduled for surgery in two weeks and as if I was not

apprehensive enough about it, I just got a call from a

friend of mine about another friend of ours-she was

only 39 and decided to go in for a tubal ligation. It

was supposed to be a simple enough procedure, she was

in a world-reknown hospital, good doctor, etc. Well,

she is now in the ICU hooked up to every device

imaginable, bleeding into her belly, unable to breath,

on a respirator, etc. etc. I don't know all the

details because I can't get in to see her while she is

still in ICU-immediate family only, but I am freaked

beyond the realm of freakdom. Ah, surgery and its

risks. I am in a real tailspin about canceling my

surgery, yet I also know that I am having symptoms

that are really messing with my life and re-scheduling

would mean a long wait and possibly a change in doctor

since I don't know how he'd react to my canceling.

Please tell me something to help ground me, as I am

reeling from this news about my friend.