Someone had the nerve, the gall, the audacity to suggest that I choose to go into the hospital for my open heart surgery on July 20th because the movie version of "Mamma Mia!" opens on Friday the 18th--like I would plan such a serios event around a movie!!! (Well it did come into the equation and that's where you will find me that Friday. LOL)
Actually I picked that date becuase I didn't want to put the burden on one or two people and felt it would help if more people could participate in my recovery.
Allen will be going to the Friend's Convention (no, not the TV show--something completely different!!) in Miami June 26-30th and then he will be going up north to visit his dad (who is in his 90s) and his brother and then to visit his dauighter--he will be there July 1-July 15th (and I will have his car to go 'rehabilitation center' shopping and to get a new sofa bed.)
Talking about Allen it is his birthday this Wednesday--shhhh--don't tell anyone--he will be 70--and though he doesn't celebrate his birthday or make a big deal about it I do and have started a tradition of taking him to lunch (The Cheesecake Factory) on that day and then a special buffet brunch the next Sunday (at the top of the Hyatt Regency where they have a revolving restaurant.)
Then, hopefully, I will be back in shape to take Gino out for his birthday--another tradition--on September 1.
Also, with the July date I should be able to get back to my vascular surgeon on Oct. 29 to discuss the two operations on my legs--stent in one, balloon in the other I believe--and get that done before Thanksgiving.
I want to be done with all this nonsense of operations before the first of the year so I can be up and running when the touring company of "A Chorus Line" comes to town in February for my unbirthday.
See I thought this out carefully not all revolving around "Mamma Mia!" so that person owes me an apology!!!