Less than a week! (again...)

I've been in a ton of pain for the past week; it seems the cortisol injection my dr. gave me has worn off, and I've been having a pretty rough week.  Even a few steps without the crutches can be incredibly painful.  On the bright side, the surgery is coming up, and the prep work is almost done :)  Special thanks to anyone who volunteered to help move my stuff tomorrow in exchange for beer, pizza, and company.

New Surgeon!
After a long time dealing with my original OS's office trying to get the scheduling finalized, I thought I had October first locked in.  The assistant lady went on vacation again before I got all the details confirmed, and it was difficult to get answers.  I had my family change flights to accommodate the change in date, and then last week she called me asking to push out to the third.  I called up the guys at UCSF that I saw for my second opinion, and they had me scheduled for the first with all of my pre-op appointments and post-op instructions emailed to me within minutes.  Literally minutes!  And they're a 5 minute drive away, as opposed to the other side of the city, which is great.  Sure it wont be with the surgeon who i spent the most time seeing and growing to trust, but at some point the tradeoff isn't worth having my family rebook their flights.  And this new guy seems super legit; both times I saw him he was amazing at explaining all the technical details of what he would do and why.

Second opinion: yeah, your knee is pretty messed up.

Today I got some good news, as well as some bad news at my second opinion.
The second opinion Dr. took some xrays and looked at my MRI.  He says that there's no point in going back to physical therapy before surgery, but I should still continue as many of the exercises as I can.  Balance ones especially will be key.

Surgery postponed :(

@_@
Something about wanting a specialist to assist him in the surgery? I'm not really sure what's going on here, but my new surgery date is on October first.  On top of that, the scheduling lady is leaving the country tomorrow (again?) and wont be able to get back to me with a definite time and place until she gets back, but someone else in the office might be able to help in the meantime?