Question:
I ate a small piece of steak

I am on the liquid diet for surgery tomorrow and I screwed and ate a small piece of beef steak. Will this cancel my surgery    — Gaynelle Sihto (posted on January 25, 2006)

January 25, 2006
It won't cancel your surgery but if your surgeon is like mine the purpose of the liquid diet is to 1) make sure that he has a clean area to work with and 2) If the procedure is going to be laproscopically, it shrinks the liver giving the surgeon more room to work with. My question to you is why would you make such a decision so close to your surgery? It is like you are sabotaging yourself before you can get started. You can not make mistakes like that post-op since it can be a matter of life and death at that point. I apologize if my comment seems harsh but you truly need to take things seriously at this point. Tiffany
   — Tiff's On a Mission

January 25, 2006
I would imagine the bowel prep will empty you out and if you aren't having to do it, maybe you should! Magnesium citrate will empty you out. I know some surgeons don't require it, but I don't really understand why, especially since your intestines will be severed and a clean and empty intestinal tract seems like a good thing to me! I have to question your judgement on this and wonder if maybe you really aren't prepared to go through with it. If not, speak up now ........after the surgery is done, there is no going back! Self discipline is paramount afterwards. Good luck and whatever you do, be honest with yourself about this major change in your life.
   — LauraA

January 25, 2006
No; but under NO circumstances should you drink/eat after midnight - if you do they WILL pospone your surgery. If you eat/drink after midnight this could cause you to throw up during surgery (if you didnt tell them) and die.
   — star .

January 26, 2006
It probally depends on how small is "small". I think you should tell your surgeon. If he expects you will be "cleaned out" and you are not, perhaps it would'nt be safe. I too wonder if you can be compliant post op. I don't mean to be harsh, but you are making this harder for your surgeon and perhaps less safe for yourself. I don't understand why, now that your sugery time is so near. I had a chance to go out for a huge meal the day before my surgery. All paid by someone else. I wanted it so bad but I had to fast... doctors orders. I knew he had my best interests in mind. What if he does the surgery, cuts you thinking you are cleaned out and.... well. I'm sure you probally can guess. Do as you will, but if it was me getting on the table tomarrow, I'll tell my surgeon what I'd done. Only because it "could" be a problem for "both of you". Hope all works well for you. We are all only human of course.
   — Danmark

January 26, 2006
well happy for you to be able to get a loan for this.Medical exclusion is what they are telling me also..such a bummer but maybe i will try to do what you did i went to your site the 26th is your big day CONGRATS,,I will be pulling for you
   — lastchance

January 26, 2006
DOES ANYONE know if she survived the game of RUSSIAN ROULLETTE SHE PLAYED WITH HER LIFE? the point I hope to stress is that you failed to take a very serious instruction to heart and put your self at risk for infection and complication by having a unnecessarily foreign matter in your intestines during surgery. Apart from the harm to you self, consider your love ones, and the medical staff that do care about your successful out come.
   — walter A.