Listen to your doctors!!! Don't do anything for 6 weeks. I learnt the hard way. Two weeks after my surgery, our kitchen flooded. I tried to help with the clean up without exerting any effort but mindlessly picked up a bucket with 3 wet towels in it. A week later, I ended up back in hospital with the most sever stabbing pains I've ever had in my life. Ended up that I tore a stitch at my port. Not bad enough to need surgery again but bad enough that almost 2 years later I still get occasional sharp agganising pain (doc reckons the tear must be on a nerve).
I will get my port moved later down the track so hopefully that will resolve it.
For the sake of 6 weeks, don't risk it. This means lifting baskets of laundry and reaching up too.
Be especially kind to your body during the healing period, be mindful of what you are doing and take care.
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