Knee Replacement-Good alibi for open RNY to employer??

I'm scheduled for an open RNY in early September, and have resolved to tell NO ONE about it, except close family. This is particularly true for eveyone at work, including supervisors, administration, and HR. If even one person knows, it will leak (pardon the term as it associates with WLS!) Gotten varying estimates of time needed to be taken away from work for open RNY, but am going to tell bosses to block out about 5 weeks - first, does that amount of time sound resonable to you who have gone before me? Secondly, I do have very bad knees, one in particular that is agonizing; been told by orthopedic surgeons that I'm looking at bilateral knee replacement in the future, and I have said that to people here and there at work. When I leave for RNY, while I won't say the words "knee replacement surgery," I'd just as soon they'd all think that. How long out of work would a person be who had both knees replaced? Need to know so that whatever time that is would be about the same amount I'll need to recover from open RNY (5 weeks???). Don't want to insinuate I'm taking 5 weeks out for knee replacement when the recovery time is 2 weeks. I'm 50 years old, if that figures in the equation any; need to be as precise as possible, since I work in a medical environment with Doctors and Nurses. Thanks so much, you're all always so helpful.

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