the Plan an omentectomy & transplant

So, on Friday, I saw the surgeon. He told me that the plan for surgery is to remove my omentum and then transplant it into my groin, then remove all the bad tissue from the mons pubis, shove the omentum in the wound, and close me up. It's going to be a long, grueling surgery, so it will be the only one he can do that day it will take so long. He will also work with a general surgeon to remove the omentum laparoscopically, and then he will reattach it in the groin. They will open me hip to hip to reattach it in the groin area. He said he won't open the groin area until they successfully get the omentum, and there's a chance that it isn't big enough or healthy enough, and then they would have to abandon the surgery, and I'm praying that doesn't happen. There's also a 15% chance the transplant won't succeed. Then, post-op, I will be in the hospital for five days minimum, and I won't be able to sit up more than 30 degrees upright for three weeks in hopes the blood vessels reattached won't kink, and the transplant will die. T

All this feels so overwhelming. It's a lot and the most intensive surgery I've had. I am worried something will go wrong, and they won't be able to complete the surgery. That is my biggest fear; I'm one of the 15 percent that fails. I have a lot to do before surgery to get ready for it, including losing weight, so being under won't be so hard on my body and just getting all around healthier so that I can heal faster and better. I've already cut out sugar and gone low carb, but it's wreaking havoc on my IBS. But I also have an appointment in March to hopefully get that under control better. So we shall see. The surgeon didn't give me a goal weight but I'm hoping to lose 30 pounds in the next 6 ish months. That would put me at just under 200 pounds.

And the other thing is I have no idea when surgery is going to be. It will be the only one on the agenda for that day, so it will have to be a long way out because I know they have already scheduled out throughout the end of summer, so I'm guessing it will be the beginning of fall sometime, I'm hoping it will be then anyway. Truthfully, I wish it could be tomorrow so I can get it over and done with, but this surgeon is a busy, busy dude. So I will have to wait, I'm sure, at least 6 months. I don't even know when the scheduler will call to set it all up, but I'm guessing I won't hear from her for at least a month. There are a ton of things they need to get in order and fall into place before they can contact me.

So now I'm just focusing on the things I can, like finishing the next two semesters of school strong, doing well at work, and getting everything set up for when I'll be out for like 8-12 weeks. So thats all the information I have as of now.