I can't change the date I've got set for the surgery, so I'll have to stick to the schedule -- getting into Nakhon Si Thammarat on Dec. 7 and leaving from Bangkok on the morning of Dec. 21. Hope that can still work out well. I should be rested, relaxed, recovered, and ready to go by the 7th.
This is going to be quite an experience!
Miss you bunches and bunches,