I should be ok for school right?

[Erin18 137]

School starts in 4 weeks just had surgery in july 31st I should be fine right? Everything should be healed? What about gym, should I tell my gym teacher and school nurse that I had surgery? I hope I feel 100% better by time school gets here ugh how did you guys feel at 4 weeks post op? And also let me know how you guys felt at day 7 and 8 did any of you have nausea the first few days? How long?

[Jodi_620 37]

You should be fine by then, any remaining pain will be pretty minimal. You shouldn't do anything too strenuous for six weeks but most phys-ed stuff should be okay at four weeks...just listen to your body and if it hurts, stop doing it. Let the teacher know that you are recovering from surgery and may need to take it a little easy.

I had a little nausea for maybe a week or so but my doc gave me pills to take care of that.

Edited August 4, 2009 by Jodi_620

[Erin18 137]

ohkay sounds good, I will deff tell my teacher, my doc gave me some nausea med too

[Kristine73 1]

You should ask your doctor if there is anything you should NOT do in PE, then have him write a note, if need be, for your teacher. Mine didn't want me lifting anything over 30 pounds till 6 weeks post-op. If I did push-up and/or pull-ups, then I'd be lifting more than 30 lbs :smile2:

Your doctor will let you know about any limitations that (s)he's worried about.

Good luck in school.

[Erin18 137]

ohkay sounds like a good idea, sometimes in gym we do alot of different games like football, soccer, frisbee stuff like that, we usually do the timed mile at the end of the month or begining of the next month, we also do a shuttle run arould 2 cones as fast as we can 3 times, also we do side steps that is timed for how many steps you do the we do sit ups which is also timed we do the physical fitness test twice a year one in the fall and one in spring I see my doc on Monday, I'll ask him

[Jodi_620 37]

I'd venture to guess that most of that would be okay with your doctor as long as you are healing okay; maybe not the situps though. It pretty much has to do with avoiding strain on the abdominal area. Lifting could affect the healing of the incisions. Strenuous abdominal exercises could cause problems with incisions and the muscles where the port is stitched. Most of the stuff you listed would have been do-able for me at four weeks. I wouldn't have been able to give it 100% but I could get out there and do it.

[Erin18 137]

I think I'd rather have a note from my dr for when we do sit ups just to be safe