Time off work for Recovery?

[oceancity4me 0]

I am having my surgery on Dec 3rd. I have taken off 7 days for recovery. Will this be enough time? I am a nurse, but I work in a doctor's office. No lifting is required.

[PrincipalsOffice 16]

Hard to say since everyone is different... Im two days out and couldn't imagine being ready to go back on Monday, but in 5 days I might be ok.... I am a counselor, so I basically have a desk job, but the getting up and down is the worst part. Once I'm sitting, I am ok.

[ParrotheadCathy 0]

The counselor got it right.....each of us is different. I had surgery on Tuesday and went back to my desk job on Friday. For most, a week is plenty of time.

[oceancity4me 0]

Thank you both for the response.

[AirKuhl 1]

I had mine Thursday and was back Monday, desk job. It only hurt for a couple of days and it was pretty minor, I think I took a grand total of one of my pain meds.

[nurseab24 0]

I was kind of wondering the same thing. I am also a nurse, home health and don't really do any lifting. My surgery is on Dec 2nd(wednesday) and I am planning on going back to work Monday. Hope I can at least!! I am just going by what I felt after gallbladder surgery, and I could have went back the next day reallly. So I am hoping for the same with this.

[kellu25 0]

I have my surgery on Dec,10(thurs) and I have to be back to school on monday for an exam, I hope I will be okay its just sitting so hopefully it will be.

[AlienBandit 10]

Best of luck I didnt take off any time after my surgery. I had my surgery on a Sat and went back to work on Mon. I am a teacher and just asked my students to help me if I couldnt do something.

[Moxi 0]

I think a week is considered the standard amount of time recommended by most surgeons it seems. I took a week and was fine to go back to work. I wasn't 100% but good enough.

[riley4183 0]

I had surgery on a Monday and went back the next Monday (desk job), but the first 2 days I could only handle it until noon. I got an infection on day 4 and I had to take some awful antibiotics to cure it - they made my sick and tired. I honestly felt better on day 4 than day 7 - if I had not gotten the infection, I would have been fine with 4 days. Your port is going to sting for weeks anyways!

Good luck, and congratulations for making this choice! You will be so glad that you did :thumbup:

[Melinco 1]

I'm having surgery on December 17 and not going back to work until the Monday after Christmas, so 10 days off of work (including the weekends). This should work out great to help get used to the liquid and mushy diet afterwards.

[oceancity4me 0]

Well it sounds like a week should be fine then. I am getting a little nervous as I get closer to my surgery date(DEC 3rd) but very excited! Pre-op diet going well. I am down 5 lbs in 4 days

[ElfiePoo 109]

I had surgery on a Tuesday morning and was back at my desk on Wednesday morning for 3 hours. Took a 2 hour nap and went back to work for 1-1/2 hours. The next day I worked all day...even walking around my warehouse doing various things while not overdoing it and sticking to the 5 lb lifting limit and did it every day after that.

I own my own business though so it was flexible enough to allow me to leave if I needed to (which I never did after day 1 post op). If I worked for someone else, I'd take at least 2-3 days off even for a desk job as I did find myself tiring and needing a mini nap on those days.

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