<human>: Can you summarize the given text in a few sentences?

[me in ER](

Keeping it short and sweet
I've had an Unshiftable gut for a long time now - no matter what I do - I have always had a protruding tummy, and it seemed like the more I exercised, the worse I felt - getting worse over the years and thought it was a function of getting older.

So my wife surprised me with a surprise trip to Queenstown last week for my 40th birthday - awesome and super exciting and first time my son had been to the snow - great trip, got back up on skis with no effort and had a fantastic time
Started feeling a bit short of breath at times and thought it was down to altitude and over exertion

Flew back on Saturday night, unloaded car, said hello to the dog (who promptly knocked me on my arse) then off to sleep

Feeling a bit rubbish on Sunday and thought it was probably because I was a bit sad to be back and just a bit exhausted from a fantastic holiday

Monday woke up feeling sore and increasingly tired

Early night on Monday and had to wake up to let the silly bloody dog in just before 11, and bugger me - couldn't walk, couldn't breathe

I was in absolute agony

My wife called the Ambulance and they whipped me off to ER - cut to today, I've now been in hospital for 3 days and I'm about to go into surgery to remove a 30cm x 20cm cyst on my liver

It's moved my kidney by a few inches, compressing a lung, squishing my stomach and intestines and is about the size of a newborn baby

It's had no symptoms up until Monday, and currently with about 6 hours to surgery I'm shitting myself

I'm in a really good hospital with great nurses, docs and surgeons - but the surgeon has basically said that its the largest one that they have ever experienced and the CT, X-rays and ultrasounds show that it's bloody massive so they will take it slow and get it all out

Wish me luck anonymous strangers, and remember that many of us are a bit guilty of not wanting to look deeper into things that we really suspect are real issues
<bot>: What looked like a big tummy turns out to be a gigantic cyst pressing on all kinds of internal organs - and it's been getting bigger day by day