Had 10 major surgeries - open heart surgery only one I don’t ever want again.
But mine went amazingly well, but the grace of God.
I was out of hospital on 3rd day, and walking 1 mile/day one week after surgery! 3 miles/day 2 weeks after surgery, 5 miles/day 3 weeks after surgery. Ran full 10k 9 months after surgery but trained for full marathon and ran 9 miles.
Miss my running, now overweight.......
Open Heart surgery is no joke, I agree with you on that, it bothered me more mentally than physically.
When I was told I had stage 3 heart block and needed a pacemaker 3 days after having open heart surgery it screwed me up mentally.
I don’t know if it was the anxiety of the surgery, the drugs they were giving me or the total lack of rest you get in the hospital, the idea that I needed another surgery a couple of days after open heart surgery because my heart wasn’t working right got me to believe I wasn’t going to survive, totally screwed me up for a couple of days.