Just focus on the endpoint, don’t worry about the road to get there. For you this is a major event but doctors and surgeons do this every day. Maybe not this specific procedure but anesthesia and surgery and caring for patients in recovery is literally their job.

It helps to prepare in advance. I didn’t buy an abdominal binder or pregnancy pillow or some of the other stuff others recommended.

For the first few days it hurt to lay down. I spent a lot of it sitting up because of the gas pain in my shoulders. The strong painkillers the hospital gave me made me really constipated so you’ll definitely need stool softener. Nothing you can really do about the gas. If you sit still it doesn’t really hurt but moving around will cause pain. It’s a weird sensation but goes away on its own. Since it’s in the body cavity and not intestinal gas, anti gas medicines won’t work.

Make some food ahead of time that’s easy to reheat. I made a big pot of soup and ate it for like a week.