More progress...

I spoke to the Constable from the Calgary recruiting office again today, I wanted to confirm with her that she got my fax with my sye surgery date on it. (Which is going to be February 15th, by the way) I talked to her for a few minutes about what lies ahead, and she told me that she is going to kick my file over to the interview stage, so sometime next week when the Steno gets back to work she will send out a letter confirming that I have made the interview stage, then an interviewer will call me sometime in February to arrange a mutually convenient time for us to sit down and chat (FOUR HOURS OF MENTAL PAIN!!!) then the polygraph. The structured interviews are possibly done here in Red Deer, possibly in Calgary, we will see how the cookie crumbles. The polygraph will be in Calgary.

Once three months from my surgery date passes, I send off a letter from my opthamologist or the surgeon, I'm not sure which, stating that I am good to go, and then my file moves over to the background inquiry and security/reliability checks.

So the long and the short of it? More waiting. Lots more. Hey, this is the federal government we're dealing with, what did you expect? :P

That messed me up!!

Well the good news is I can once again be in a fully lit room without wincing in pain.

I couldn't do that for most of yesterday or Friday night. I had a "Dialated Assesment" for my eye surgery on Friday after work. The optometrist I go to in town put a set of eye drops in that anesthetized my eyes and then dialated my pupils completely so he could take a look at the full surface of my retina. Results: 100% good to go! So now I wait for the surgeon (Gimbel Eye Clinic Calgary) to call me this week to make the appointments - which will hopefully be in late February or early March.

More good news - I was at the gym today and did both cardio and weights! That's first time I have done both since I recovered from my lung inflammation. I ran last week for half an hour - just a light run since I haven't done any real running since November and I did some weights another day last week. Now I have to start ramping up my performance level to recover the conditioning that I have lost and then start making some forward yardage. I think that since the laser surgery will delay my entrance to Depot, I have that much more time to improve my fitness to that much higher levels. I want to be able to run a mile and a half in 10 minutes flat or under, I want to be able to do 5 km in under 20 minutes, and a lot of other high end performance goals - all grossly exceeding the minimums set by the RCMP and also exceeding the "Excellent" benchmarks as well.