i'm glad that i feel like i can call you if i need a little extra support on monday depending on what the surgeon says. i am pretty sure i'll be ok and won't need to because appendix surgery is pretty routine and stuff, but i don't know how i am going to react. when i had to have my gall bladder removed back in 2002 it was an emergency situation and there was no time to think and stew and worry about it like i have now... i think it's just this condition i apparently have is called 'rare' in the stuff i've been reading, so that concerns me.