Thank you cassandra for sharing your story. They are planning a midline (down the middle front) incision, i.e. "split from stem to stern" as they used to say. I'll be loaded up on the heparin because I'm on coumadin for previous DVTs to that's a risk they won't want to take.
It does matter, but what difference does it make right now? Even if it was confirmed they wouldn't do anything about it other than what they're planning, unless of course I was so far gone they sent me to hospice. They've already said they won't do a biopsy because it's too dangerous and again, won't affect what they're planning.