Hi @Annabelle The surgery you can and will get through, I know it's daunting but take it a step at a time and you'll start to see improvements week by week. I was certainly no super hero. I didn't even know the Irish had tear ducts until this thing happened, but I've made up for that in the first few months after diagnosis. Now I can see myself going from strength to strength and so much better in myself than before this happened. You'll get there too.
it is cruel, unfair, a bitch, it sucks, and there is no rhyme or reason to it, but at 44 I thought to myself "I'm only half way through my life and damn it the next half will rock!!!".
Go Kid!! :)