School & gastric bypass??

So on top of my full time job, I am a full time 6 classes student. I have (per surgeon) 3 weeks off work but cannot miss more than 2 days of classes. Will I be ok a week post op to attend a sit down class? Anyone else juggle school and surgery? 

I didn't have to,  but a good friend of mine had RNY on Monday and had to be back to work full time on Wednesday.  She also went to college,  and started classes a couplee weeks after surgery.  She is the mom of two teenagers as well

it's not ideal, but it can be done of needed. 

 

Oh man, kudos to her!! I only have tues & Thursday classes but surgery is on a Tuesday release on Thursday so I'm out that week! I was also told I can't drive for 2-3 weeks?? Why is this?

You'll be prescribed some narcotics for pain,  you can't drive while taking them.  I stopped taking the pain meds after a week, but my hubby is a stickler and insisted I didn't drive until I had to go to my 2 week follow up appointment. 

I did ,I had my surgery on Christmas break so not to miss any school, and I was fine to go back after the holidays, good luck to you, kelpower

If you're off of pain killers by then, I think you'd be ok.  I was in the hospital for 5 days, so this would not have worked for me. :(

I had my surgery on a Wednesday.  I went home on Friday and I definitely could've gone to work (office job) that afternoon.  I went back to work on Monday and was fine.  My advice is to get up and walk as early and often after surgery as possible.

While I was in college 10 years ago, there was a service provided for students with health issues where a van would pick them up and drop them off where-ever they needed to go.  Can you find out if your college can help this way?  It really helped me with my arthritic knees when I didn't have to walk for blocks to get from parking to class and back.

If you make sure you nap as needed while you have the time, you'll probably be OK.

Thanks everyone for your responses ! I was trying so hard to get my surgery done over the break but it got pushed back :( it's all good though, I will learn and adjust! My mom (14 years post op) says I'm being naive about the pain after and assuming I can go to class and walk just fine. She was also cut wide open when she had her RNY and 12 years older! I think it's safe to say the surgery has evoked and changed since then... Although I wish they'd take the unused portion of my stomach out

I had my surgery over spring break so that I wouldn't have to go back to classes until 10 days after surgery. I would not have been able to go back much sooner, and that was hard enough. The first week after surgery, I was completely useless and couldn't focus enough to get anything done, let alone my reading for class. The first day in class was terrible, and I really wished that I had a full two weeks to recover. After that, my biggest struggle was carrying my backpack. You will have a lifting restriction for the first six weeks. I have to bring my laptop to class to take notes, so there was just no way around that. I ended up leaving all of my books at home for those weeks so that I could carry my laptop. But even that was really pushing it. So make sure you plan for that too.