It’s really not bad, as far as surgeries go. Your abdomen will be covered in bruises and you’ll look like you swallowed a basketball until the gas goes away. No big incisions, no real pain- just discomfort from being inflated. You’ll probably get liquids and soup for a couple days and work your way back to normal food. You might find that grease doesn’t quite agree with you the way that it once did.
I had gall bladder surgery 40 years ago and things are MUCH better now. Then it was 3.5 hours on the table, in hospital for a week and off work for 6 weeks. Now it is almost an outpatient procedure.
They took 300 small stones out of my body and left me with scars that looked like I lost a sword fight.