Surgery

Today I had an appointment with my TMJ dr(specialty dentist). It was to finally decide on having the TMJ surgery that we had talked about almost 2.5yrs ago. For those that don't know I was in a car accident 3yrs ago, which caused some damage to my TMJ area(I'm not really sure if it's an area or bone or muscle, as far as term goes, but anyways, it's right at the behind your ear where your jaw would meet up with the ear.) Without going into to much detail I get headaches, pains in my ear, jaw, and it hurts to eat certain foods. I think in my mind I had already decided to have the surgery, but then I got pregnant with M so we had to hold off cuz I couldn't get xrays done. Then everything with M, drs appointments, MRI's, therapies, I had gotten in to see him, just never set a date for the surgery, and just kept pushing back calling till things with M slowed down. Today we set a date Jan 19th. It will be a week recovery mostly cuz he also will be removing my three wisdom teeth also. We made the choice to have them removed at the same time cuz 1)I only want to be sedated once thank you 2)the dr thinks if I did it separate(cuz they need to come out sometime) that it could re-hurt the TMJ which wouldn't be a good thing. I also have to have some jaw therapy not sure how long I don't think it would be much?! At the moment even though I know I need it I'm really nervous about it.