I was very lucky at my surgery consult because I was able to book my first two follow-up appointments within a week. I got my social worker consult today. She is very nice and quite a character. She told me she agreed with my doctor and that I should see a counsellor for depression and that she would recommend to Dr. Khalili that I see the counsellor a couple times. This is scary to me because it means I need to squeeze in two more appointments on top of all the other appointments I have to make and miss work. But I have to do it. It is not optional since I have no support system. Oh well, I’ll do it.

I had to mention the fact that I will most likely be having surgery and be out 2 weeks to my boss and told him it would not be for at least a month, probably more like 2 months. One of the techs quit today so they’re not happy about me needing to take time off for any reason. I very rarely take time off so I have this fear that I’ll be fired but I know it’s for health reasons so I don’t see how they can object. Especially when I am warning them at least a month ahead of time so they can start hiring people.