Well, it has been an exciting start to an all ready painfully wonderful journey.

I was up until 11 pm snacking and waiting for the clock to hit
midnight. Then it would be no food or drink for the rest of the day.
To say the very least I woke up at five and was starving. It is funny
how when you can not eat that is all you want to do. So I get in for
a surgery scheduled for 1:30 and they come and ask questions. I'm not
sure how many times they asked the date of when my last period was but
each time I gave it wrong, lol. I thought I was close, any minute
now... but no, lol, Mom and I were the only ones in the room till
about 3:30. I decided that I was so hungry and the only show I could
watch was the food channel. Luckily it was not a very good one, but
time kept on rolling on. Eventually the doctor comes in and
introduces me to the Anesthesiologist. He says that I can go anywhere
I want to when they put me out. I reply, I'm starving, going to a
restaurant. He then injected me with happy juice. As I'm going in I
remember saying something about the cobblestone pathways in Europe?
Then freaking out as I went through the set of main doors. Then I was
gone...

Was the food any good in my dream? I don't know but I'm told I woke
up and told my mom and my clergy man James Reites, I'm starving! The
odd thing about Jim coming in is that when it said if I wanted any
clergy there I said no. But my mom and him were in the waiting room
and were waiting and waiting. Jim called the the main line and said
this is Father James Reites and I'm here to see Eliza. They were
then let into the room, the strings I must pull. They then chose to
feed me some hospital food, which my mom swears I ate so fast I
hardly remember what it was. Man I was starving though!

I of course get put in the same room with the whiniest lady ever. I'm
not kidding the whole night, cry cry cry, can you move my leg, can I
get more pain pills, it is too hot in here. I almost jumped out of
bed and yelled "Get over it, Shit hurts, live with it and stop
complaining." I don't know what she thought she was going to get out
of it. After some valium I was out though. I'm pretty sure all the
nurses hated her at the end.

Morning came with some french toast and pain relievers. I realized I
could see my toes, no they were not pretty, as you can see, but this
is the first time I have seen them in i think my whole life. It is a
miracle to move them and I am delighted by it.

Well toodles and I will get back to you with more news as we progress.
lil'e