Hi guys! I have been the one on here very nervous and scared about the procedure. Mainly because I want to be here for my little girl. But I have been on here, received alot of support, prayed on my surgery day and time and have been trying to remain positive.
Well today they called me and told me instead of being the first surgery of the day I have been bumped to the 4pm slot the last surgery of the day. Statiscally it is not the best either. They can't reschedule me that day they say and aren't willing to get me in till the end of May.
What should I do, I feel like canceling.

You will be fine.......normal jitters....I would not cancel the surgery.....

I probably wouldnt cancel .... But you have to do what feels right for you.Everyone is nervous  , but listen to you heart and you will do the right thing.

If you cancel you'll kick yourself later.

 Surgery schedules are created by computers.  It could change again tomorrow.  Go have your surgery and get it over with.  You will just end up stressing until May and the computer might schedule for a last surgery of the day again.  The hard part will be fasting all day tomorrow.

Relax. It is not a sign. All will be well. Let go of your superstition and move forward.

Or, if you must, reschedule. Waiting a month won't kill you.

my surgery was late in the day but it all works out. you have so much to do with signing in and preop stuff that it goes by in a flash. you can do this. good luck.

I was scared silly about my surgery so I know how you feel. With that said, would you feel less scared if your surgery was first? Or would you still be scared? My son had just turned 4 last year when I had my surgery, and was the reason that I decided to have surgery. I wanted to be here for him. My surgery was rescheduled and I had to wait what seemed like a very long 6 weeks after my initial date. Waiting will be difficult, but so will waiting until 4 tomorrow. Do what is right for you. Just don't talk yourself out of surgery tomorrow if you are nervous about surgery in general. Next time there could be another reason for you to want to reschedule. Next year at this time, you will see that it was all worth it! Can't wait to hear that you are done with the surgery part and on the road to a new you.
Lisa

Just stop it.......I'm a fricken biostatistician and train surgeons and you are overthinking this. if you're team was doing a 20 hour procedure before you maybe........they'd be tired. You'll be fine. Canceling is foolish. And for the record.....you aren't the 'one' who has been on here talking about being nervous - we were all nervous........every last one of us. Susan

I will not do late day surgeries for a number of reasons.

More problems seen with late-afternoon surgery

Late afternoon may be the least desirable time to have surgery, according to a study that finds certain adverse effects are more common after 3 p.m.
 

Buzz up! In a review of more than 90,000 surgeries performed at their medical center, Duke University researchers found that negative effects related to anesthesia, most often pain or nausea, were most common after late-afternoon procedures.

For example, a patient's odds of suffering post-operative nausea and vomiting, wound infection or some other ''harm'' were three times higher if the surgery began at 3 p.m. versus 8 a.m. though few patients had such problems at either time.

Along with post-operative nausea, inadequate management of patients' pain during and after surgery was the most common problem reported.

According to the study authors, there are a number of potential reasons for the late-afternoon slump, including doctors' late-day fatigue and hospital shift rotations. It's also possible that people are more susceptible to pain or nausea late in the day, perhaps from lack of food all day or the stress of waiting to go under the knife.

''We believe that identifying the specific periods when problems are most likely to occur is an important step in the overall process of making surgery safer and ensuring that patients have a good experience,'' lead researcher Dr Melanie Wright said in a statement.

She and her colleagues at the Durham, North Carolina, medical center report their findings in the journal Quality & Safety in Health Care.

For their study, the researchers analyzed a database kept by the center's anesthesiology department, tracking adverse events among 90,159 surgeries performed over four years.

They found 31 instances of error, such as giving patients the wrong dose of anesthesia medication, and 2,662 instances of adverse events during or soon after surgery.

In all, adverse effects were most common after about 3 p.m.

In addition, the researchers found, ''administrative delays'', waiting for lab test results, doctors running late, were more common in late afternoon. This, they speculate, might have contributed to the higher risk of anesthesia-related problems.

The researchers are now planning a follow-up study that will analyze each step in the surgery process to try to weed out the factors that separate procedures done in the morning from those done late in the day.