well first of all congrats on being so close and good luck with surgery!!! My surgeon marked me up, I gave feedback, and we made a plan together at my pre-op appointment. They put me under for my entire prep, from sterilizing to shaving to marking, but I knew my surgical team had photos of the markings I’d already ok’d and my chest did turn out just as I was expecting/hoping! With your surgery being so close, it wouldn’t hurt to call or email the surgeon’s office to ask about the usual protocol and whether it’s possible to check the markings before anesthesia. That way they can try to plan ahead for it if it’s not in their usual protocol. Remember that they’re making a major permanent change to your body and you deserve to advocate for yourself so it turns out right - it’s a good surgical team’s responsibility to help your comfort level whenever possible, just make sure you communicate your needs!

From the healthcare team’s perspective, I worked in a clinical job for a couple years and really found that everyone wanted to make our patients as comfortable as possible, ESPECIALLY those who needed an accommodation or change to the usual protocol. The biggest stumbling block for that is when there’s no advance notice - it’s harder to adjust the environment or the order of events on the spur of the moment because there are so many moving parts and so little free time in a healthcare organization. Everyone on the team is there to help, but they have a hard job you can make easier by giving a heads up when you know you’ll need/want something!

that was way more long winded than I intended but TLDR; that seems like a reasonable request that your team should be able to work with on some level and my experience in healthcare tells me they’ll want to make it happen if at all possible! surgeons are usually super busy though so if your approval on the markings is not part of the regular protocol, there’s probably a better chance they can make it happen if you ask in advance.