So my surgery was scheduled for last Friday.

I panicked, freaked out, cried, and then bailed on the whole thing. I am now rescheduling for sometime next week (21st or 24th, TBD). I made the decision to have the surgery based on a lot of calm, logical thought and research, over almost two years, and I made the decision to run screaming from the hospital based on 5 minutes of totally irrational panic.

Anectdotally, it seems that freaking out before surgery isn't super uncommon (tho most ppl still go through with it).

My question to you is, did you freak out before you had your surgery? To what extent? Or were you cool as a cucumber ready to roll?

Thanks!

I had a mini nervous breakdown 2 days before surgery. Cried hysterically in my car in the grocery store parking lot before work. The enormity of everything just kind of hit me all at once. But then I settled down and felt perfectly calm after that. My sister, however, kind of freaked on me in the hospital room before surgery. There I was, in Tijuana, all gowned up, IV in my arm and premeds on board. She's asking over and over if I really wanted to do this and volunteered to "break me out" of there and we could spend the next 3 days sampling tequila by the pool. Needless to say, I stayed and had surgery. ????