Advice please!

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My boyfriend has a hernia and we are supposed to be taking a trip next week to go skiing for the first time. Any suggestions or ideas how to alleviate his pain for the time being? We can’t return the passes and is insisting we still go because it was my Christmas present. I can’t stand seeing him hurt though. His surgery is shortly after we return.

*Update it’s now a double hernia with one on the opposite side. My love is in so much pain😭