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Topic	people who had surgery, how long did it take to get your stamina back?
ParanoidObsessive 09/14/19 10:03:07 AM #16:	faramir77 posted... If you don't mind, what physical condition were you in before the surgery? I'm a healthy weight and I'm fairly active, and not much older than you were with that surgery (I'm 27). I've booked a week off of teaching and I'm hoping that's enough time to recover (surgery on a Friday, back on the next Monday after that next week). I don't teach anything physically strenuous and I probably could be allowed to spend a bit of class time sitting if need be, so I'm sure I'll be fine. I was actually in pretty good shape (possibly the best shape of my life). I was 21 (about a month before turning 22), a relatively ideal weight for my body type, I basically had to walk about a mile or so to get from my apartment to class (and on some days did it multiple times a day, both ways), and I was playing street hockey on-and-off so I was used to running around a fair amount. One week off seems like it might not be enough - I had my surgery on Thursday, and was kicked out of the hospital on Saturday (and had a lot of trouble getting into the car I rode home in). I spent most of that week just trying to sleep and heal as quickly as possible, and I'm not sure I would have been able to fully resume normal activity by that point. Like I said, I was still a fair bit fatigued and bent over even two weeks later. A lot of it depends on how you get to/from work, whether or not you stay in one classroom all day or will be moving from room-to-room, whether it's going to be a problem if you're moving much slower than usual, etc. Also keep in mind you're not supposed to be carrying anything heavy or otherwise exerting yourself too much, so carrying a lot of books might be a problem, depending. It's hard to generalize one person's experience to everyone else, though - you might take 2-3 times as long to recover as I did, or you might be healing in half the time and feel completely fine in just a couple weeks. You'll never really know until after you've had the surgery and see how you're progressing. It may also help that you're not an emergency case, if you're scheduling your surgery 2 months ahead of time. For me, I basically woke up in the middle of the night on Monday in agonizing pain, went to the doctor on Tuesday and he sent me to the hospital immediately, they did the surgery on Thursday, and when I went to the doctor for a follow-up check-up afterwards he told me my gall bladder had actually gone necrotic and if I'd waited another week or so to have surgery I'd likely be dead. So it's possible my body had way more stress on it, which in turn made the impact of the surgery worse, so my recovery took longer. But that's just speculation, and could be entirely wrong. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:927422805] in people who... [t:78007036]...</cite> <quote><cite>faramir77 posted...</cite> <quote>If you don't mind, what physical condition were you in before the surgery? I'm a healthy weight and I'm fairly active, and not much older than you were with that surgery (I'm 27). I've booked a week off of teaching and I'm hoping that's enough time to recover (surgery on a Friday, back on the next Monday after that next week). I don't teach anything physically strenuous and I probably could be allowed to spend a bit of class time sitting if need be, so I'm sure I'll be fine.</quote> I was actually in pretty good shape (possibly the best shape of my life). I was 21 (about a month before turning 22), a relatively ideal weight for my body type, I basically had to walk about a mile or so to get from my apartment to class (and on some days did it multiple times a day, both ways), and I was playing street hockey on-and-off so I was used to running around a fair amount. One week off seems like it might not be enough - I had my surgery on Thursday, and was kicked out of the hospital on Saturday (and had a lot of trouble getting into the car I rode home in). I spent most of that week just trying to sleep and heal as quickly as possible, and I'm not sure I would have been able to fully resume normal activity by that point. Like I said, I was still a fair bit fatigued and bent over even two weeks later. A lot of it depends on how you get to/from work, whether or not you stay in one classroom all day or will be moving from room-to-room, whether it's going to be a problem if you're moving much slower than usual, etc. Also keep in mind you're not supposed to be carrying anything heavy or otherwise exerting yourself too much, so carrying a lot of books might be a problem, depending. It's hard to generalize one person's experience to everyone else, though - you might take 2-3 times as long to recover as I did, or you might be healing in half the time and feel completely fine in just a couple weeks. You'll never really know until after you've had the surgery and see how you're progressing. It may also help that you're not an emergency case, if you're scheduling your surgery 2 months ahead of time. For me, I basically woke up in the middle of the night on Monday in agonizing pain, went to the doctor on Tuesday and he sent me to the hospital immediately, they did the surgery on Thursday, and when I went to the doctor for a follow-up check-up afterwards he told me my gall bladder had actually gone necrotic and if I'd waited another week or so to have surgery I'd likely be dead. So it's possible my body had way more stress on it, which in turn made the impact of the surgery worse, so my recovery took longer. But that's just speculation, and could be entirely wrong. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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