Nothing to say, but I'll say it anyway

So, Anthony is getting surgery this week and I'm celebrating by going to Punta Cana on Monday.

Actually, it really wasn't supposed to happen like this. Jimmy and I have been trying to go on vacation since November, but Apple Vacations keeps putting us off - as if a trip won in a radio show contest isn't as valid and unchangeable as a regularly scheduled vacation that you actually pay for! All I know is that we now have flight plans and both Jimmy and I could really use this vacation!!! I am really looking forward to spending some time with him...there's a lot to catch up on.

As for Anthony and the big surgery: when we were in Charlotte over the holidays visiting his family, his mom brought him to a specialist to check on his knee. Apparently an old injury that no one fully investigated has now come back to bite him in the good old tushie. They need to take a final MRI to make sure, but it looks like he has some torn cartilage or something, which if you tweak his knee the right way causes oodles and oodles of fun. The doctor plans on drilling three holes - one for the fiber optics camera so they can see what they're doing, and two more to actually complete the surgery. If I am correct in my assumption (as I had the same type of surgery, sort of), this is what you call a laproscopic surgery. They will scrape down the cartilage in his knee so it's smooth, and then patch him up and send him on his merry way with some painkillers (which, knowing Anthony, he probably won't take). The cartilage will then grow back properly and heal itself.

The surgery should last only a few hours and Anthony goes home at the end of the day. They say that within three weeks he's going to be 100%, which is exactly what they told me when I had my kidney out in 2001. It's amazing that the body can heal itself so quickly, but it's true.

Of course, I think Anthony's being a dumbass by driving himself down to North Carolina, but thus far I haven't been able to make arrangements to fly into Charlotte so that I can drive him back when I get home from the Dominican Republic (it just so happens that he plans to return to NYC the same weekend I return from my trip). So his whole return plan is up in the air, as we don't know how he'll feel within a week of surgery. So, we'll see.

Right now I can't afford a flight into Charlotte so I'm relying on Apple Vacations to make the switch. As it is so close to our date of departure and we already have confirmed flights, I don't know what they can do without charging me my firstborn child or an extraneous limb. Again, we'll see...