I went in for my pre-op weight-in today and - after weighing - the nurse asked me if I had been sick lately (???). She then went on to tell me that she had just learned that my pre-op chest x-ray showed signs of pneumonia. What the heck?? I told her I had been experiencing some congestion in my chest a few days ago but certainly not to the point that I felt I was sick, much less from pneumonia. Anyway, she gave me some mega antibiotics in the hopes that this thing can be resolved before surgery or it will have to be postponed. My surgery date isn't until next Wednesday so she's optimistic that we can go forward as planned. Wow.... waiting for the big day has been hard enough and now this. Anyway, I guess I'm just venting some frustration by posting this and hoping you will cross your fingers for me... it all helps. Thanks.

I went to pre-op today too, my surgery is Thursday.

Dang! I've heard of "walking pneumonia," but "unaware of pneumonia???" Weird, man....weird!

That's crazy...and I am sure they caught it in time to fix the issue so you can still have surgery!!

I had pneumonia for almost a month and didn't know...thought it was a cold and me just being lazy.... Please be sure they repeat the chest x-ray before ur surgery.... the last thing you need is to be under general anesthesia w/ infection in ur lungs!!! This was a blessing that it was found!

Oh, this was 8 months pre- op and I had to get several CT scans and chest x-rays to make sure I had no sig scarring before I could sleeved.