How can my healthcare providers support me mentally through surgery?

Any surgery has lots of issues and indications and different for every patient and every one person and their relatives depending on where, how old they are, where they're coming from, what their needs are, what their family's needs may be. And many of our patients are carers, there are other people and these are things we take into consideration. We can help as medical professionals to look after all of these things if you have a two-way conversation with us about some of the things that may be worrying you that we may be able to help with and certainly we have lots of strategies in place that may assist you in both the pre-operative period while you're in hospital because you may have family members that need attention too and in the post-operative rehabilitation period where we may need to set up care for you in different packages depending on the family and support network that you may have. But please do feel that you can speak to your healthcare professionals because they will be able to support you with this journey that you are about to undergo.