What would you have liked to know before having the surgery?

Are there things that you you think that you wish that you'd known before you went into the whole process that you didn't know? I think it would have been helpful to know why I was waiting so long for the thing to for the operation to happen because the initial impression I was given was that this was urgent you know my GP said down the hospital tomorrow and she said I'm not she wasn't going to make an appointment for me she just told them I was coming and so and clearly when they saw what they'd found they decided this was urgent but then it just went totally quiet now because lockdown was presumably behind it all but nobody said that and I didn't know whether they'd had another look at it and thought oh it's not so bad you know, we can hang on a bit. And I really didn't know. Perhaps it was my good because perhaps it was very urgent. I was lucky that it didn't pop on me while I was waiting. But that would have been helpful to sort of know what was going. But once I, you know, I knew that there was going to be or could be issues with the anaesthetic. I mean, I didn't realise quite how horrible it was going to be, but nevertheless, that I knew it was going to, it could happen and I knew I was going to feel totally and utterly exhausted so yeah these things weren't surprises.