Yeah, you’re lucky to wear a hospital gown and have an IV. I’m not that old but had leg break and other surgeries that needed IVs, there’s no walking around much at all with one inserted at all.
I was in the hospital on Sunday. Second time in two months. Once you’re in the gown and hooked up nurses don’t like you getting out of bed. It’s the old urine jug or bed pan.
The day after major abdominal surgery with an IV plugged in, I walked the hall.
I walked everyday pulling the IV along myself on that and other occasions in the hospital. I had to get the monitor disconnected from the wall however