Journey to Malia Jo ZhiYan

Hmmmm, I don’t want to get my hopes up, but there were a few announcements today of some travel approvals coming in. The ones that came in today have the same LOA date as me………so that MAY mean that I MIGHT get my travel approval tomorrow?

They all seem to be leaving for China on 7/5/07. That’s basically a 14 day notice. That’s Ok with me though, I’m pretty much already packed, hehehe. Actually I have a confession to make, I’ve had myself and the baby’s stuff packed for close to a month now. I started packing Gary’s stuff this past weekend. I’m just so worked up, I cant sleep, I haven’t really been eating right either. I feel drained already and I don’t even have the baby yet.

We got some bad news yesterday……Gary will have to have surgery on his neck. He has degenerative disc disease in his neck and also severe neural foraminal narrowing, which is narrowing of the spinal canal. His spinal cord is basically getting squashed and that’s why he is in so much pain. He has been on pain killers for two weeks now and that’s not getting the job done so I guess surgery is the alternative. I have read that surgery is not the cure all either but it helps for awhile. His doctor told him he has the neck of a 70 year old man. Geez, where did that come from????