• @captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•24 days ago

    So there’s like a week of hospital and pain. Then a week or two where you’re mostly lying down. Then you’ve got a few weeks where you’re increasingly well, sitting around at home, and around that time it’s not uncommon to actually want to spend increasing amounts of time up. Listen to your doctor and your body, but yeah a month and a half is a long time and activities that help you slowly transition to exertion levels of work are good.

    • dandelion (she/her)OPEnglish
      1•16 days ago

      so, funny you mentioned not moving, but I might be moving like 4 weeks after my surgery 🙈

      Do you remember roughly how long it was before you could, for example, sit through a short-ish flight (like sitting for a few hours)?

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•16 days ago

        So I moved 6 weeks after mine and my advice is hire movers. It wasn’t dangerous, but lifting furniture suuuuuucked

        So my surgeon was a 3 hour drive from my home so I managed the trip fairly quickly. It sucked but I had a good cushion.