N2deep2quit

Are you wearing a belly band - can we do that?

I have my surgery date (03/12) and my pre op is Monday (5th) - and I am fighting hard not to fixate on something my surgeon said in our appointment time. She was telling me the importance of going of eating low carb, etc. diet (and then 3 days on liquids) before surgery to shrink the liver. The liver needs to shrink, she said, because basically they have to kind of lift it to get where they need to be. She said if a person didn't follow the guidelines it's easy to tell because of the liver. "We'll have to just close you back up and not do the surgery, " she said. Well, I AM following the guidelines. But, I can't get over the fear. If I wake up and the surgery hasn't been done, I think I will just die. The reason it's scaring me is that I was told 50-60 lbs. ago by a medical person, doing a scan or something - I can't remember the exact context - I've had a lot of issues in the last half-dozen yrs. or so - that I had "the fattiest liver" he'd ever seen. Has this happened to anyone you know of? I mean they do this on larger people than I am but . . . geez, I'm . . . worried.

My surgery date is 03/12/18. I am excited.