I have to travel for 6 hours to the hospital and the surgery is planned for a Thursday, with an overnight stay in hospital do you think I will be ok to travel home on the Friday?

I would think you would be OK. I definitely recommend a pillow for your stomach during the ride.

I would think you would be OK. I definitely recommend a pillow for your stomach during the ride.

Thanks Jim, I will take the pillow along. It will be good for me to cry into if I am sore LOL

You'll do fine. This was by far the easiest surgery I ever had and I have certainly had my share. I was up walking the halls with a Nurse two hours after coming out of Surgery.

And be sure to take some pain meds before the trip. Don't wait for the pain to start cause being in pain in a car sucks! Plus stop frequently to walk for a few minutes to help with the gas from surgery.

I would also check with your doctor and see if they see any problems with it.

Good luck on your upcoming surgery.

Are you driving and alone? I wouldn't recommend you driving yourself 6 hours one way? Maybe 1 hour or less? If someone else is driving I'd say OK but have lots of water and fluids on board.

I also would hope you would have someone with you. I dont think I could have drove 6 hours at one day post op. It would have taken me 18 hours to get home. lol but do stop and get out and walk a lot to prevent blood clots. That is important.

but do stop and get out and walk a lot to prevent blood clots. That is important.

Yep, my doc told me to stop every half hour and walk for about 10 minutes.

So Jim.... How was the pain? I've had a few other surgeries too (back and abdominal) so I'm used to pain but kind of need to be prepared for it.

Honestly the worse part for me was the gas cramps and I think I made the gas cramps even worse by stupidly drinking a lot of apple juice once I was allowed to have liquids. Typical achy left shoulder due to the gas but other than that it was not bad. I had surgery on a Monday and I easily could have gone back to work on Wednesday (I do have an office job where I sit all day)

Thanks for all the support and info, especially Jim who has been a wealth of information, I really do appreciate your posts. I had telephonic contact with my surgeon today and can't wait for the 21st March.