thanks everyone for your feedback! I'm going to go with it. Ideally DH would get a v but he won't. Of course work is crazy right now but I'm just going for it (it's scheduled for May 31st), I sat down with the schedule person and we came up with some ideas for covering the 3 shifts I'll be missing. We're a small self staffed unit so coverage is hard-especially in the summer and we're loosing several people in July so it was now or wait until mid sept which is hard with the back to school crazies.