Different strokes for different folks. I had triple bypass on 7/27/04. They had me walking on day 3 and sent me home on day 5. On day 12 I was walking a mile and on day 18 I was driving to work and took my grandson to the the drag races that afternoon. I had no depression and no chest pain but the leg just quit hurting about 5 days ago....
tubebender, you're definitely stronger than the OldPossum.
I, too, was walking around on the third day, and I was kicked out of the hospital fairly early from my perspective, on the seventh day. When I got home, I was instructed to do some walking every day...and I did, but the surface had to be level. I tried walking up a 40 degree slope shortly after getting home but couldn't make it.
It took me two months before I felt halfway decent and four months before I felt right again.
I was told that the recovery times vary enormously. One nurse told me that a patient, a burly farmer, required six months before he felt "normal" again.