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Re: Liver Resection Surgery
CB (I wish we had real names on this forum),
Regarding clothing -- It depends upon the hospital, and upon the admitting nurse (to the post-op floor) -- as to what you can wear. Anyone with a shred of good (and kind) sense will let you wear whatever you want, while reminding you that in a crisis, that garment might be cut away to allow access. In the OR, they won't allow your own garments, because they (rightly) worship sterility and cannot be sure that things laundered outside the hospital are truly clean. But once surgery is done, it's not that big a deal to thread your garment's armhole thru the IV pump and tubing, and if you ask nicely, only a real ogre would refuse you.
It's easy to say this is a trivial point (wearing your own clothing) but I think it's bigger than it seems. Clothing, in our society, can give us comfort, and power. Or it can take that away. I hope that you'll take whatever clothing comforts and empowers you, and insist, calmly and politely, on wearing it as soon as is possible.
Lots of good thoughts and wishes,
Debbie Laxague
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