The night before!
You should be very informed yourself by this stage. Make sure you have asked your surgeon all the questions that are troubling you. If you are unsure about what questions to ask then look up the BAAPS website for more info (www.baaps.org.uk). They should be able to help. Don't worry if your surgeon is not registered with BAAPS though, as my surgeon is not. Just make sure that he/she has the right qualifications, has performed many surgeries of this kind and that you have faith in him/her.
Day of surgery
After a meeting with the anaesthitist, the nurses, and a final brief from my surgeon, I was taken to the operating room. Everyone was very helpful and put me at ease. I was administed the anaesthetic and around twenty/thirty seconds later...zzzzzzz.
I was awoken by the staff, who were helpful and chatty (considering later what I actually looked like (see opposite) I am suprised they weren't falling about laughing - but I guess they see it often enough, and I'm glad they didn't.). They put me at ease, and I am very grateful for that.
Soon I was taken back to the ward (I was asked if I would prefer a room of my own, which I thought was very considerate, and accepted.). My partner joined me and stayed with me for the next several hours in which I repeatedly dozed off.
I was discharged a little after 4pm.
Now I just have to get to sleep, upright, with repeated ice water sprays every 1 - 2 hours throughout the night!
Oh yeah... and paracetimol!
