Help! Proof-reading a PhD?

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I should state before I start that this thesis has got to be at the binders for this coming Friday (!!), so this may well influence your answer!

So my PhD (English Literature) is due to be submitted on Tuesday 22nd December, and thus has to be at the binder this Friday, 18th. I'm suddenly panicking about not having had it professionaly proof-read! Friends have read every chapter, but of course I have made minor changes/corrections etc, ever since, and I'm worried I might have accidentally deleted words or something like that.

I don't know how quickly a professional could turn-around a PhD thesis (c. 72,000 words), but do you think it is worth the hassle, panic and expense of employing an emergency professional at this stage, or should I just accept that it's too late now?

I have to confess that I think there are pretty significant problems with the thesis which make a referral the most likely outcome, so pass/fail is not really going to hinge on this, but what would you do?

AAAAGGGGGHHH!

Right - panic over.
Any thoughts?
Thank you.

Only just seen this.

Lentils has been amazing - I can't get over how generous she's been towards me, with her ideas, time and encouragement. She was up until well past 3am this morning sending me corrections, and back at it at just after 8am working like a demon to help me make my deadline with the binders - which I did!

I've had time to make all the necessary minor corrections, but she has also given me plenty of ideas for further reading in preparation for the viva, and points of discussion that the examiners are likely to pick up on. Because of the way things have worked out nobody else has actually read my thesis cover-to-cover, and even my supervisor hasn't read every chapter, so Lentil's suggestions and comments will be really invaluable in giving me some idea of how best to plan my 'defence'.

Now I might just blub if I don't stop (!!) - but massive, massive thanks to Lentils!

I have a random blank page in mine despite proof reading it 29 million times

So how did it go?