Yep! Ready to get this over with! Last day at work today! I work in government registration and licensing and I do driving tests. I know the local driving instructors through work but don't actually work with them per say. I told one instructor the other week and then another one today. Just said I'll be off for a few months with surgery. I might tell them when I'm back what it was for but I just wanted to keep some things to myself. I don't exactly know why.
All the girls at work know but it's just personal preference I guess.
Anyway, keeping busy over the next few days- getting my eyelashes tinted tomorrow so I won't have to wear mascara and still feel human! And then my sister is colouring my hair Monday. I am going out with my other sister for coffee day before surgery in a town about 45 mins away- just to keep me distracted. Will be nice too as her husband has the kids and I don't often get to see her without them. We used to be close but hadn't been for a while but she has been really great with the surgery coming up and her and my mum made me a care package. My little sister ( I say little, she is 25) has had hip arthroscope and I thought would be better but I've barely heard from her. Oh well, I don't expect people to drop everything for me and she is wrapped up in her own dramas so I will just take the help from those that offer.
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This is the care package- tea, a tea pot, magazines, a lolly/candy 'happy pill' dispenser full of gluten free sweets and heaps more! It's actually a huge basket! Very spoilt. And I posted on Instagram about one of the teas I got and the tea company are sending me some more as good luck for my surgery! How lovely!! I was so thankful!
Candice, 29 yo. Rheumatoid Arthritis. Australia. Sequential unilateral THR June 1st 2016 and July 13th 2016
Follow that and you're doing everything right. The fact that you're signed off to recuperate means you can give 100% attention to just that - and feel no guilt whatsoever! 
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