Dear Pam, Lainy, Kris, Gavin, Moderator and all the other wonderful people on the site:
Thank you so much for all your help and encouragement. It is extremely informative and comforting. We start tomorrow and are praying and keeping our fingers crossed at the same time.
I am sure i will be visiting frequently for your advice.
PS- is it possible to configure the settings, such that you receive an e mail, everytime sometime posts a reply to your query. I thought that would be the case, so did not check the page till almost 48 hours later and was pleasantly surprised to see all the replies.