My op got postponed, twice, first by them then by me.
On op day I was at the back of the queue so waited 5hrs before being done at about 6pm.
Woke in recovery room at (i think) 9pm to be told I had a haematoma.
Theatre was busy for the next 3hrs with some bloke crashing on the operating table (being told that did nothing to help my nerves!) so I had to lay there for several hours before I could go back in.
2nd op was finished at some point after midnight and this time I was stapled rather than stitched.
Despite having had 2 ops the night before I was made to get up, wash, dress and leave, unaided, by 9am the next day.
Recovery took MUCH longer than the 2-4 weeks implied everywhere, due to the haematoma/2nd op.
The pain killers caused me to pass out several times so I stopped taking them
2 days after the op there was an ‘inverse picolax’ moment…
There was very little info given about how recovery times change when something has gone wrong…
I’d go a far as to say that the recovery period was the worst time of my life.
As I said above, it was at least 8 weeks before I was riding gently, and 12 – 16 before I was riding normally. For a long time I was convinced that the repair would need to be redone as it felt ‘wrong’. I’m still ‘aware’ of it now, 14 months later, but just assume that as it’s mild, this is what they feel like.
Still, on the plus side I managed to watch all of The Wire while I recovered 🙂