Time Off after Surgery?
Exciting news first.... I should FINALLY have my surgery scheduled sometime this week!!!! Very excited, however now I have to worry about taking off for work. They know I am working on having this procedure, but they are not very enthusiastic about me having to take off work. I manage a branch office at my company and there is a lot of responsibilities that I handle. My question is, how long should I expect to be out of work? My goal would be 1 week, then hopefully return part-time for a week or so. Could this happen? I have only had 1 surgery in my life and that was a gallbladder removal about 4 years ago. I was out 2 days for that one.
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Despite that I lived!
Take as much time as you feel you can and go from there.
SW 212 / Goal 130 / Current 130
If you have a desk job, you could get away with 1 week off if you pushed it... but I would recommend that you try to get half-days for your first week back. I can't tell you how much of an adjustment it is, coming back to work. Half days will help with the transition.
You are consuming waaayyyy less calories, and in my case, I was working on my feet, so it was tough.
On the positive side, once you adjust and heal from surgery, you will find that you'll have more energy than ever! Its so amazing!
If I could take one more week off I think I'd be golden but it's not going to happen. I'll be back this week but the minute I don't feel up to being there I am going home and they will have to deal with it.
Every doctor is different with WLS recovery time. Mine is strict about taking 3 weeks. He does not release you back to wor****il your 3 week check up.
You will not be ready to go back in one week. Remember, this is major surgery despite it being laproscopic. You will need at least...at least 2 weeks to recover...but again it is up to your surgeon to release you back to work.
***to add in my own personal experience...I was out a total of 4 weeks. There is always a chance of developing a complication. And I did, I had a leak at day 10 post op which landed me back in the hospital for almost a week and an extra week to recover from that. My employer (and doctor) just extended my FMLA and LOA since it was directly related to my original surgery.**