All those things mentioned above are great. My only addition would be to watch the YouTube videos that are available. There are many that will prepare you for surgery really well you can watch them at your convenience. I attended the pre-surgery meeting. They had at the hospital for people having joint replacements, and Spine and hip surgeries and they were very informative and you can ask questions so if your hospital or doctors office has that which one of them should I suggest you go in for those meetings. You need to be in front of somebody to round out the context in a discussion that will be most helpful to the things that people have mentioned here as to why you need those things. The best thing to prepare is to get exercise before you have the surgeryexercise exercise exercise even those little baby exercises cause you’ll need your strength going into surgery or your spouse will. Good luck.