Some time in the next three months I'll be going in for a surgery. I don't know when that will be yet, as I have at least two doctors who have to work together to figure out exactly what the surgery will be, and when, and this may mean a whole bunch of appointments.

I'd really rather not make it public what the surgery is for until I have a stable date.

A part of me feels bad because a part of me is all 'people deserve to know!' but at the same time I feel a strong urge towards keeping things private as I can until procedure dates are set in stone to limit the amount of worrying.

But at the same time saying nothing and giving no warning feels wrong. It also makes it harder to process if I don't make it an open secret that I'm getting surgery as soon as at least two doctors can wrangle each other's schedules.

I guess that I can give a little vague info?

First is that it's not the most urgent situation. I mean if it was an immediate worry they'd have booked me for a procedure early this month. So it's not like, immediately killing me.

It's something that has to be dealt with before it gets worse though, or else death is the outcome. But I should be fine so long as it doesn't take like. Half a year. I think? We're still trying to get it in ASAP - it's not the sort of thing you wait for if you've found it! But it's not something likely to kill me over night?

I feel like I'm going to make people even more worried in my attempts to calm people down...

I guess a good way to put it is that my doctors have said things will be okay. We just gotta do one of two surgical procedures, and I'll be in recovery a few weeks, but ultimately okay!

You tell us what you feel comfortable telling us. I will pray for you nonetheless and I hope the surgery happens soon and it goes smoothly.

This helps. I don't really have social scripts for this sort of thing? Admittedly when I had my heart surgery in 2018 I admittedly like, had a month in the hospital to get ready and people knew I was hospitalised, so it, like, wasn't something out of the blue?

The good news is that heart surgery is definitely scarier than either surgery we are looking at!

That's a relief. ;; You've been through a lot.

... Yeah. I kinda have. Life is weird, and I tend to have a lot of weird stuff happen.

The good news is that if everything goes right I'll be able to say pretendy funtimes literally saved my life, considering the only reason we found this is because we were looking into the completely unrelated search on "What To FUCK is even going on with my immune system!" that was started because I made a plurk here and people were all "TALK TO UR DOC"

Goood. Yes, I've noticed people looking out for each other - especially on Plurk. <3 It's good to ask questions about how your body is reacting.

Which I only did because I made friends in MoM, which I only joined because I was on a superhero kick at the time and a friend suggested DW RP because I was upset at the state of RP in a previous pretendyfuntimes medium, ahaha.

Amusingly I just shared it all as 'haha, my body is so weird. These things probably aren't related at all!' and people being all 'Shannon I swear to god' skldhgdshg

I'm glad to hear there are plans in place to help you

Me too! We just need to get them all made concrete.

I'm glad it's figured out and the scheduling has began

I'm glad they found it and things are moving forward! take care