Esmeralda

He had to go and do an antibody testing, a treatment for antibodies. And then from there, we were pretty much ready with me. Same thing, I had to get a lot of tests done and I was good to go. I'm telling you, it all took around a year for us, like his testing and my testing getting done, and it was pretty good…I had lab work done, CT scan, checking that I was good, like my health-wise, checking everything. With him as well, he had his own testing done. We went to maybe-- I'm thinking it was three meetings before surgery where they would talk to us about it. All the counsellors we actually talked to. I got to talk to a surgeon before surgery, counsellors. We had like a whole group of support which was great. They answered all of my questions.

I'm telling you, with unemployment, it was pretty easy. Because at the hospital, I pretty much didn't have to do anything. The social worker from the hospital, she did everything for me. So pretty much, I was set-set up with them and that was it from my work. And obviously, I had to let them know ahead of time when surgery was and how everything was happening so they could have somebody and- taking my spot meanwhile I was gone. But I mean, it was pretty smooth. It was-I had no complications with that. It was just unemployment.