I have my surgery on May 7th. Just curious as to how quickly some of you got back to work. I can’t afford to miss out for too long..

This depends on whether you have a desk job or are more physically employed usually. The less physical your job normally the more quickly you will be able to resume work activities.

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This depends on whether you have a desk job or are more physically employed usually. The less physical your job normally the more quickly you will be able to resume work activities

This is good advice, and the second half of it is: whether it's desk or physical, how mentally taxing is your job? Are you doing something that's kind of predictable and on repeat (like working customer service remotely or routine in-office secretarial work), or are you constantly in the midst of chaos, complex organization and problem-solving?

I thought I was pretty much in the clear because I could work remotely during recovery, but abruptly discovered that the amount of mental running I was doing completely wiped me out and I'd end each day exhausted, even though I'd spent most of it propped up in bed. I took three days off and if I had to do it again, I'd take the whole week off and then go part-time the next week.