Thanks, your plan is very helpful. I would not have thought of things like specifying that I wanted to wear my glasses, but of course standard hospital protocol would be to make me take them off.

I just got off the phone with one of the anesthesiologists at the hospital. He said that I should "probably" be okay to have either an epidural or a spinal, because my fusion is relatively high in my spine. He also told me that I could stop by the hospital for a consult, with my X-rays, if I wanted a more definite answer. So I think I'll camp out over there on Tuesday morning until someone can see me. I'm feeling somewhat better just from that - I definitely have fewer problems with the idea of a C-section if I can count on being awake.