Howie tried calling to schedule today and they *still* don't have January's schedule loaded in their system. The first time he called today, she said there were many people wanting to schedule in January, and they were already booked through the end of December.
He called back to see if she could take his name, since he has been trying for two weeks to get on the schedule. She said she'd be sure he was on there. She said to try again at the beginning of next week.

Don't know how that's supposed to work if
he's the one who has to keep calling them.
I told him we should call them daily until they get him on there with a definite date. He told her it doesn't matter when - any time the first week of January on is fine with us.
In the meantime, our friends who offered us a place to stay with them are so sweet. The lady wrote and said they've been picking up little things to make our stay with them comfy. They keep stressing they want us to feel like part of the family, to consider anything in the kitchen all four of ours, etc.
When I start feeling stressed, I recount all the means in which God's paved the way for this. Surgery sucks, but there's so much happening it's all obviously for a greater reason.