Hi Doreen, I hope it is a simple, "day" surgery you are scheduled for. I'm 69, and have my annual Mammo's.     And the doctors a few yrs. ago saw "a little tiny thing" to keep an eye on.   Well, 2 yrs. ago that "little tiny thing" got a tiny bit bigger."     A "biopsy" showed  "pre-cancer" and that "little, tiny thing" was removed.   Two "day" surgeries and I'm healthy - in that area ! Also a reminder for people "over 60" to have your annual-physicals.    ~5 yrs. ago hubby was found to have "early-stage Prostate cancer.    It was treated, and he is healthy now - in that area. And, have someone check your back -- and backside -- for moles that just don't look right !      I have 2 neighbors - both dealing with Melanoma -  cancer on their scalp.   The man next door ~77, the man across the street ~74 has his son in his 30's dealing with it -  and his does not look good for him. And, I think I might have mentioned my husband's "severe headache"  3 1/2 yrs. ago.    He doesn't like doctors and didn't want to get it checked out.   Since he never got headaches, I .insisted.    Early the next morning, after a test, the doctor called and said,   "GET YOUR HUSBAND TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM --- NOW !!!     He has a Brain Aneurysm - a large one !"     We got in the car and drove to the local hospital;  they only took 20 min. to put him in an ambulance and send him to a large Boston hospital.     He was one of the "damn lucky" ones and survived the 9 hrs. of Brain surgery. ......  To add a little genealogy to this,  how lucky we are - to be living after 2000.    How many of our ancestors - "dropped dead" or  suffered for months because of a health problem that couldn't be fixed. Betty             (near Lowell, MA, USA) (3 ties to Canada:    KERR / HENDERSON in P.Q.,   LEWIS / CORKILL - BHC - in N.S., and  KIDDER / WILKINS in N.B.)