Setting a date

After my visit to the eye doctor on Tuesday, I called the hospital where I had the operation two years ago, the same one where Christopher has spent so much time, but first they said they couldn't give me an appointment for the preliminary examination until mid-September, operation three weeks later. I was in shock then, because I couldn't imagine struggling on like this all summer and then not being able to work until mid-November.
Then Moni checked, because she works at the same hospital as a midwife, and they agreed to give me an appointment for the preliminary examination in mid-July, operation three weeks later. Still some time to wait, but a definite improvement.
The latest news is that I could go to a hospital in another town, where an old friend is now the head of the eye department at the hospital there, and I can have an appointment with him to do the pre-operation examination and the operation at the same time - within two weeks.
Two weeks is soon. Now I am about to panic.