Is there anything else I need to do to prepare for surgery?

I am awaiting insurance approval; if it goes through, I will have surgery Nov. 18th. I am diabetic with high blood pressure, don't smoke, BMI 41. I take 3 meds for diabetes and two for the blood pressure. Besides trying to keep those under control, I take a baby aspirin daily, calcium citrate with Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin B-100, and have just started a multivitamin with iron. I have also just started taking fish oil but don't know if I can keep it up- I burp fish! I'm also drinking some Glucerna to increase my protein. Is there anything else I can or should do to make complications less likely, and to make recovery easier? I'm a nurse and you'd think I'd know this but I don't!!

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