Hello SPF folks. I'm a 22-year-old trans guy, 2 years+ on T, and my top surgery is in *drumroll* three days.
I've been bouncing between being incredibly ecstatic and horrible anxious since I finally got my surgery date. Let it be known that my anxiety does not have to do with the surgery itself... I've been ready for five years, and I am not shy about being poked, prodded, and cut into. (lol)
What I'm worrying about is being denied surgery on the very day of it for any reason. I have a constant paranoid anxiety that any time something good is about to happen, something will swoop in at the last second and take it away.
It's based on something though. Obviously, you aren't supposed to smoke nicotine or cannabis at least two weeks prior to surgery which is what my doctor advised me; I've smoked both. Though I have cut down quite a lot after being an all-day every-day vaper/smoker, whereas for the past two weeks I would only vape/smoke once for a short time at night.
Will they check my urine? It'll definitely still be detectable. Will they refuse to operate on me then because of the healing issues it could present? Will they do it if I take full responsibility and tell them to do it anyway?
These thoughts have just been dogging me constantly this past month. There are so few resources on this wildly specific subject.
I suppose I'm wondering... what are the possible reasons one might be denied surgery ON surgery day? And if anyone has experience with this kind of thing, please share.
Love and appreciation to anyone willing to ease my troubled mind.