I worried over nothing.

After my long-winded post fretting about how - or even whether - to tell R. what was going on, I decided to take advantage of his "captive audience" status during a trip home from Ohio to visit Grandma. P. was sleeping and R.'s DS had (mercifully) run out of battery, so I took the opportunity to let him know what was going on. I'll spare you the details but I was very clear about telling him that mommy is NOT sick and will be alright. The end result? Mostly he was just excited about the prospect of having a sleepover at a friend's house the night before my next surgery! I should have known. So all that worry was for nothing, I'm happy to say.

On another kid-related note - today was the first day of school!!! Yay!!!!