Hugs or pats or smiles and waves from a few feet away, whatever would be reassuring but not too much, Allyson. :) You can do it! The middle of any process usually seems like the worst, I'd think.
I slept 11 hours last night, and then my alarm went off this morning and woke me from a sound sleep, from a dream about playing some sort of boad/word game with friends (who were not people I really know) and some random dude who was in our booth with friends of his (??) who left but he wanted to play the game. And just before that a dream about some sort of race that some guy I knew/was dating (??) was supposed to run in, but we'd forgotten to plug in a phone, so nobody called to say "where are you" and he was very mad he woke up only a few minutes before the race. Or something. Dreams are weird.