You need to let the trolls go for now. There is so much to be done between now and your first surgery, you can't give them any of your energy.

You need to focus on doing what you need to do to get the best possible outcome that you can. This will also be excellent modeling for Sophie about self-care and doing things that require planning, have multiple stages, and are hard.

If anyone is crazy enough to think that this kind of procedure is an easy way out, there is nothing you can say to fix them. They are broken, and they want to stay that way.