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I took off 5 weeks, went back to work for 6 days and then had (am still enjoying) 11 days of vacation.  So pretty much I\'ve been off work for 2 months.

I could NOT have gone back to work at one week.  I have a desk job, but I couldn\'t have done it none the less---

I\'m just wondering because my job isn\'t going to let me take that much time off, I can see it now, I have to save my vacation time and I want to get this done at the end of February.  I will have 1 week by then

Yes, I have a desk job, that is the only reason I\'m considering a week....Sometimes I have to travel but then again I will be sitting once I get to my destination

You may still have a drain or drains in at one week. You really cannot go into work with drains hooked up to you.  They aren\'t easy to hide.  And you won\'t feel like wearing normal clothes by then. I would not have been able to go back to work at one week.  Or it would have been difficult.  I would save as much time as you can ahead of time.  Even if things go smoothly you aren\'t going to feel like getting out and about for at least 2 weeks.  Best of luck.---

My surgery is 1/2, and I am planning to go back 1/16 but told my boss that if I am not up to it, it will be 1/21 which is 2-1/2 weeks.---

Hey sweetie...there are several of us teachers here on the forum!  I teach little ones and going back at day 19 was a toughie!  It wasn\'t that I was not healed or anything, just tired.  Stamina is a good word....I didn\'t have enough of that at the time, but I pushed through.  The biggest mistake I made was that I returned on a Monday.  I had the whole week to get through.  By Friday, I was wiped out!  I wished I\'d returned on a Wed or Thursday, so I could rest all weekend after just working 2 days.  Oh well, it\'s in the past now.  Live and learn I guess!  Good luck to you going back.  Watch those kiddie hugs...they are sweet, but hurt!---

>> You\'re not nosy, Cindy! I didn\'t elaborate before so as not to scare
>> anyone as I was a most unusual case.  Now, here\'s the story - but don\'t
>> laugh and know that the chances of any of this stuff happening to you is
>> slim to none!
>> I had an abdominal hysterectomy with a cantalope sized fibroid removal
>> scheduled (almost emergency, actually)which is how I convinced hubby to let
>> me get the TT to begin with. (No point in sewing all that fat back on!) I
>> was suppossed to be in for 3 days.  Once they got in there they found a ton
>> of endometriosis way over it\'s "banks" and 2 hernias that had to be
>> repaired/removed.  Even then 3 days would\'ve been fine.  After surgery, I
>> blew up like a balloon, burst ALL of my belly button stitches by day 3 and
>> nobody knew why. Then I got a fever and they couldn\'t get the IV back in me
>> as my veins collapsed so they wanted to watch me on the strongest
>> antibiotics possible whithout IV.  And they didn\'t know WHAT the infection
>> WAS.  So they put me in a different double room but no more roommates for 3
>> days.  And for 8 days I couldn\'t "go" despite every laxative known to man!
>>  Besides that, my hubby was entertaining all the docs, nurses
>> and orderlies with continually updated football scores (it was Nov.)and
>> point spreads and they didn\'t want to lose their source! (JK!).
>> Whew!  While there the nurses showed my hubby every detail of my care from
>> changing bandages to stripping drains to getting me in and out of bed.
>> When we got home I was still in such pain and started to get depressed and
>> hubby just took right over where the nurses left off, even holding me up in
>> the shower, patting me dry and getting me dressed down to my socks and
>> tucking me in.  
>> And THAT is how i spent my 10 days before Turkey Day in Nov. 2006!
>>
>> YOU are NOT gonna\' spend that much time and YOU are NOT gonna\' blow your
>> stitches!  So stay calm, ok?? ---

Hi Mila,
I took three weeks off and could\'ve used four but the week I went back was a short 2 day week (due to Christmas) then I had another 3 days off then was back today and then off tomorrow for New Years Day.  So it hasn\'t been too bad.  There\'s no way I could\'ve gone back with only one week off...and I didn\'t even have any drains!
I do hope you\'ll consider taking more time off to recover.  You need your rest to ensure your body will heal.  After all this is a very invasive procedure.
Good Luck to you! ---