@lovablesteven Your concerns are very understandable. Give yourself time for second opinions and thinking this through.

Here is a link that will take you to information about this type of surgery, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448907/.

While this article deals with this type of surgery for Chron's Disease the description of the surgery might be helpful to you. Did your doctor say if it would be an open surgery or a laparoscopic-assisted surgery?