Marg, hope it heals properly & as scheduled. When they fixed my torn Achilles the estimated recovery time was several months short of what it actually took.
Not sure what the reference to me is about so rather than read back hoping to figure it out here's my situation. I intend to dive with 5 different ops this trip so that I can spend some time with some of those people I really enjoy being with but haven't seen in a while. That's going to be a bit of work on my part & require some juggling on their part because it specific DM's I want to dive with rather than the op as such & I can't pre book without knowing everyone's work schedule but so far all but 1 have confirmed that they will try very hard to make it happen & I'm expecting to hear back from # 5 very soon. My wife is also being very co operative on this but expects me to spend vacation time with her when I'm not diving plus we have friends joining us so making it to a meet & greet is not very likely. Hope that's what you wanted to know.
Larry