Help calm saturday surgery fears

[dahliaaa]

Apologies in advance - there will be an air of hysteria about this post but I do have 'some' mitigation.

I'm having my gallbladder out in a few weeks time. Had various bits of surgery over the years but particularly nervous because my wonderful DH has secondary cancer.

I seem to have developed a real anxiety about anything happening to me because of the DC's and have been called today to say that my surgery date (which was a Tuesday) has been cancelled and will be on the previous Saturday (same surgeon.)

Cue me thinking about all the scare stories saying that if you get operated on on a weekend the death rate shoots up.

Can anyone reassure me ?

Death rates were higher for people admitted at weekends, because nearly all of them were emergencies, therefore more serious/complicated, therefore have poorer outcomes.Plus some differences in staffing levels at the weekends.

Nowadays more and more routine procedures are being carried out at weekends : routine eye clinics, camera investigations, minor surgery. This means that the hospital has restaffed, so they can run routine things, previously only done during the week, at weekends. At major hospital near me, Saturday is now basically the same as a weekday. So no issues at all with routine surgery on a Saturday.

Hope it all goes smoothly.

Thank you DancingLedge that's exactly the calm (non neurotic !) response I was hoping for.

No no it’ll be fine. I had a mastectomy years ago
All will be fine,

Thank you lynn