It's Really Happening! - Vancouver, BC

I have been following this site for a few months, and now I have a date...November 1,2013. It has been so helpful for me to read all the other posts, I felt I should pay it forward...a little information about me...I am 57 years old,5'6 and weigh 155. I am a 34F or FF depending on the bra. I am married and my husband has been very supportive of my choice, although as it gets closer to my date I can tell he is worried about me. I am in the process of getting my stuff together as we live 4-41/2 hours from where surgery will be done. We plan on spending the night before,and the night of the surgery in a hotel then travel home the day after surgery ...I figure I will still be pretty out of it and there is nothing like your own bed and the comforts of home. I will post more later...thanks to all of you who have posted before me...it is really comforting to read your experiences.

So I spent yesterday showing my husband some photos of what I will look like after surgery, after I'd read another update where the husband was unprepared for what his wife would look like. I am glad I did...I think it helps to be prepared and it will make it easier when he does see me. I also spend a few hours trying to find fruit of the loom sports bra style 96014 in Canada . It has the front closure and is impossible to find here.
As the day gets closer I am having so many thoughts ...I am happy to be finally getting it done...but I am also scared,nervous... You know all the normal stuff. We are trying to get the house ready,so there will be nothing to do when I get home. My husband is great...so I don't need to worry about anything...he cooks,and cleans all the time...the only thing he will need help with is laundry :)
I have to say that it is SO helpful to have a place to go and talk about what I am feeling and to know I am not alone you all share in a journey with me...some go different paths but the destination is the same...

Only a couple of days until I head to Vancouver and I am getting really nervous. I still have not been able to settle on a bra, finding a front closing one has been really hard. Have any of you got another idea. How long until I can lift my arms up? Could I use one of those Genie Bras? Hopefully someone can give me some suggestions. I am packing a cooler with juice,gingerale,applesauce,fruit cups and cheese for the night at the hotel after my surgery. Pillows, and my own blanket. I am going to post some photos tomorrow... I am excited to have this done...but my emotions are all over the map today. I think I am scaring my husband,I know he is worried about the surgery...