Ankle Fusion Surgery Tomorrow

Tomorrow is finally the big day. We went out tonight to a great Korean restaurant and had bulgogi and seafood pancakes.

My dad was in good spirits. Everyone was cracking jokes about his foot. The best was my husband's extended description of the hospital scene: the 23-hour hospital stay was because it would take exactly that long to saw his foot off, and meanwhile the blood would run down into a gutter at the side of the bed and into a small pond outside the hospital where it would feed some carp which would would then be served for lunch in the hospital cafeteria. My mother reminded him to write "not this one, stupid" on his good ankle in magic marker. I told him to make sure the doctors knew they were supposed to be taking off a foot, not adding one on. My whole family has a weird sense of humor, in case you haven't guessed.

The hospital and the doctor are very good, and I'm sure he'll be just fine. I'll be there most of the day tomorrow. It's the same place I had my laparoscopy.

I've been really active these past few days in posting comments at other adoption blogs and racial issues blogs. I don't feel like posting about my own adoption plans now, though... I feel like everything is on hold because of the surgery. I'll see if I can turn one of those long comments I made this week into a blog post later this weekend.