Blake heard back from Hanrahan’s office and apparently the specialist I’m to go to for my first surgery is so booked up that I may not get in to have the surgery until JUNE. Their office said that they have two people from the SUMMER who are still waiting for the same procedure as I am. :o(

Before American conservatives bitch at me about wait times and universal healthcare, just don’t even start with me. I’ve racked up a crazy amount of hospital bills that the government is paying for where if they didn’t, we would have had to have gone bankrupt to survive financially. 1) The procedure I’m waiting for is not a life-saving procedure. I won’t die without it. 2) I need a specialist and this is the specialist my other doctor (Hanrahan) knows. I would still be in this position in the US. They’re going to be calling around to look for another specialist who can maybe do it and I’m sure they’ll find one.

The other thing is that my body, this whole time, has been in the process of reabsorbing the fluid from the pseudocysts so they could be shrinking as I type this, making this procedure completely unnecessary, which would mean I could just go ahead and have the big surgery as soon as they’re small enough.

As Blake pointed out, in the last 6 months, my body has absorbed and processed 100 LBS of extra fluid.

I’ll have to go have another CAT scan to see where things stand. No idea when that’ll happen.

When Blake first told me about this, I cried. For obvious reasons (JUNE!) I was pretty upset because my life’s been on hold for this shit long enough and now it was possibly going to affect Squam, which is the only thing in life right now that I have to look forward to.  But Blake put it into perspective: Say I had to wait until June or July to have the procedure done, which I may not have to do because they could find someone else to do it. That means I could have my surgery right away and I’d have 2 months to recover before Squam. If it was later than that, then we schedule the big surgery for AFTER Squam, which I would absolutely be willing to do. Squam is my top priority right now. I need Squam. If I have to wait longer to have my big surgery, so be it.

Blake called Colette, the art lady from Touched By Fire, today because she told him to call her once things had calmed down from the holidays and she gave us some interesting advice. Apparently in Toronto, there’s this store that has an art gallery attached called Magic Pony. The gallery is called Narwhal Gallery. I went to both sites and took a look at what they have and she’s right, my stuff would fit right in.

Apparently they have an online application process, but I couldn’t find it, and Colette suggested that I do that but she was worried that the pictures of my paintings don’t do them justice, through no fault of my own, they’re just difficult to photograph accurately, so she suggested that if the online process didn’t work out, she’d take a portfolio (I’m not sure what that means, exactly) to the actual building and show them my paintings first hand.

So since I couldn’t find the online application, I’ve started drafting an e-mail to them where I’m going to include the YouTube links to the videos I’ve made of some of my paintings because that shows them more accurately and we’ll see where things go from there. It looks promising though!

 Blake’s assuming that if they accept my paintings, it’ll be consignment, which I don’t know anything about. All I know is that I want $250-$300 a piece for what I have “in stock” at the moment, what THEY charge THEIR customers, I don’t care. And I think that’s how consignment works, right?

I hope that works out because it looks like a cool shop/gallery. Expensive though, but for me that’s probably a good thing…right?

I think my mom’s sold on Squam but I’m not sure. She says she wants an “A-OKAY” from Hanrahan but I have no idea when we’ll be seeing her next. Blake had her office on the phone twice today and they didn’t want to see us so I think it’ll be a while before we see her again and we need to have our registrations in SOON. I see absolutely no reason why Squam would be held up by my medical situation so I say we just DO IT. But my mom might have other ideas… :o/

Okay I have to go to the dentist now to get this damn tooth looked at. It stopped hurting around Sunday so I’m wondering if the nerve isn’t dead or something. I guess we’ll find out!