Hey Pen! I'm so glad to see you back hunny, I missed you!
I don't have a date yet, however the surgeon said I'd be signing consent forms on the 27th of Jan when I go in for the pre-op and the scheduling folks said that the forms are only valid for 30 days so it should be shortly after the pre-op appointment. I don't know yet if they'll be able to do it via a laproscope or cut me wide open, the surgeon I am seeing was given to me by my GI doc specifically because he's apparently the bee's knee's when it comes to doing it lapro style, her words were "people have said it couldn't be done and he managed to do it". So I'm crossing my fingers that he will be able to do it without the wide cut, although a huge scare would add to my bad-ass quotient ;-)
I'm sending well wishes your way and hope you get some relief as well, we've missed you so much around here.