Hello from Chonburi, I'm currently 19 days post-op and I'm having a hard time juggling work; I've had to drop a lot of responsibilities and that caused a lot of problems for my team back home.

It's really hard to predict how well you will take to surgery. There are some patients bouncing off the walls by day 3, and there are some who can't leave their bed till week 3.

Physical recovery aside, post-op depression can be a real challenge. You'll be tired and drained, and you will have had undergone a major change to your body. You'll be in pain or on pain meds that make it hard to think. You will have to plan your life around dilating (at least for suporn clinic patients; I'm not sure about others), and you will have to learn how to do a lot of basic things about your life all over again.

I brought work with me to Thailand and trying to juggle that with recovery gave me a lot of stress and anxiety that impeded my recovery. As a freelancer you'd know sometimes work just doesn't stick to your hours.

I don't regret having had the surgery, but I regret not giving myself more space to heal and for my body, mind, and spirit to adapt to the change.

This is a major milestone in your transition, if you can afford to you should let yourself experience it fully and do it properly.

Of course it's possible that you're also good to go on day 3 and you can throw out everything I said; but you gotta respect that surgery is a major physical trauma to take.

I'm not saying don't do it, I'm saying think about whether you really want/need to.

I think it would be easily doable. Once the drowsiness wore off after surgery I had no issues using my laptop. I did a bit of video editing while still in the hospital the day after surgery and then watched videos all day sitting up in a chair. by 8 days post op I was swinging on a swing in my garden and went on 2 mile long walks. I never had an issue using a laptop.

I am day six after bottom surgery so still in the hospital; one of my neighbours sounds like they are already back to work with meetings and such.

In the first month-ish, dilating, douching, showering, and such is going to consume about 6 hours of your day; you will probably need more sleep than usual (I was averaging 12-15h a day but that's an extreme), and you also need to eat and stuff...

I'd also suggest considering that you don't know how much pain relief you'll need at first. I got very lucky and was able to manage with just my usual chronic pain pills, but I know tons of people that needed piles of opiates and were loopy as heck.

In short, I would suggest you don't COUNT on it. Not to say it's impossible, just that you can't guarantee it. After the first month I would absolutely agree it's possible, but that first month it's more than a full time job to take care of the stuff no one else can do for you.

I was delivering training seminars on zoom from 10 days after, or 9, i dunno how do count work. And was working a couple of hours a day, ramping up to basically full time by 3 weeks. I wasn't out of the hospital till 5 days post, and I wouldn't have liked to have done a lot in the first couple of days back at the hotel, but yeah, you could be up to a couple of hours a day by day 10. With my surface and my ROG Zephyrus giving me kinda-dual monitors, I was even kinda productive :)

Maybe I’m crazy, but I went back to light duty and walking around my theme park about 4 weeks after. Thankfully no complications. I too had not much choice, and also I got really bored…

Update: Day 10 after intervention. I did a couple of hours of work already :) anything that isn't laying is tiring, and dilations are tough, but having my laptop in bed is perfectly fine!

Thank you all for your comments 🖤

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