Julie, I think your attitude to this is brilliant! Use the time to practice skills you haven't used for a while and once all is sorted you'll be so much the better for it!
One tip if I may; use the pool time to practice buoyancy control. Garf posted a response to a question of mine on DIR-X advising holding stops in 3m and I shall certainly be using pool time to further practice and refine this one!
Keep us posted
