@gammie8, I want to comment both of you for building a relationship with the liver care team. These are the experts who will guide you through the entire process. Before/during/after the transplant. My girlfriends tease me that I am so lucky because I have so many doctors nd nurses looking out for me and monitoring my health.
I am 73 (shhh!) now and got my transplant when I was 60. I was extremely ill before transplant due to suspected cancer in bile ducts and the unsuccessful attempt at my regional transplant center to make a diagnosis. I was inactivated from transplant list. and referred to Mayo MN. While I was waiting for the trip to Mayo, =my kidneys failed, and things got real complicated...I did get flown to Mayo from ICU and did not have cancer, and was reactivated on the liver transplant list - and evaluated for a kidney, too. I was bedbound and wheelchair bound, and with PT progressed to a walker. I worked hard, and followed doctors directions, so that I could be strong enough for a successful surgery. My surgery went 'without a hitch' according to my surgeon. I felt better immediately after the surgery. I was rolled to my room from recovery in a wheelchair while sipping on a vanilla milkshake! I spent a week in the hospital, and then 2 weeks as an outpatient before discharged to return home (Kentucky).
And you know what? My doctors said the exact same thing to me when I was feeling so bad, "You will feel better after the transplant". They were right!

I have a couple of discussions where transplant patients with different organs and different locations, have share messages of Hope. I think you will be inspired.

Snapshots of hope: Life on the other side of transplant.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/snapshots-of-hope-life-on-the-other-side-of-transplant/

Organ Donation and Transplant: What is Your story?
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/organ-donation-and-transplant-what-is-your-story/