Im glad to hear you are eating your favorites prior to surgery!!! We're all wishing you all the very best with everything you have coming up. Im sorry but I cant quite remember if you were the newer member who has lots of people supporting them thru everything? If not, try to round up as many as possible. Its a good plan to get someone to stay with you around the clock while you are in the hospital so they can be your voice. Even if you are sleeping, the medical team still will do whatever they need to for every patient. Unfortunately details of all patients arent always remembered or noticed by everyones medical team so dont be surprised if someone asks you questions expecting you to answer after the surgery. Hospitals in the US usually do not allow patients visitors to stay after visiting hours but in this situation most will bend the rules and still allow someone to stay with their patient 24/7 during their hospitalization. Thats where friends and family become vitally important to have!!! Asking a handful of your closest friends and relatives to take "shifts" of staying with you will be a huge help in making the hospital stay much easier. The helpers can interact with the medical team and speak up to ask for pain meds if you are hurting. Another good plan is to ask your doc the day of surgery when they first check you out to prescribe 2 different pain meds so you can swap between the 2 if experiencing alot of pain and its still 2 hours until you are due to take the next dose of pain meds. Not all patients get the pain pump to control their own pain meds. Being in pain does NOT do anything positive for any patient!!! Its actually something thats very negative on the patient causing unneeded extra stress on someone fresh out of surgery. In the US theres a major trend to do away with pain meds asap. Your situation is different! Having a major invasive surgery, its ridiculous to expect any patient to not be in pain for at least the first week or 2 after surgery. Controlling the pain will help you to recover.

Many patients do not remember all the details of what they went thru while hospitalized and the details become blurrier as time goes on, replaced with more current medical concerns. Patients can be especially loopy after surgeries and should not be left alone for at least the first 24 hours after surgery. My poor 17 year old son was who I relied on after one of my outpatient surgeries. I was not in control of myself at all and barely can recall anything about asking my son to take me shopping then to purchase quarts of italian ice and a couple other strange tasks on the ride home after surgery. I spent a considerable amount of time and money wandering thru my favorite stores "shopping" while looking horrendous with my mouth and face still too numb to notice I had blood running out of my mouth, down my chin and was on my clothes. Anyone who witnessed this was probably shocked, especially children. My son was being his usual agreeable self following me around doing whatever I asked. Im thankful he never left me out of his sight, ensuring my safety and not doing anything harmful besides to my wallet by spending several hundred dollars.