I had surgery in July and I'm supposed to go to Disneyland for two days in October.
Does anyone have experience going to an amusement park relatively soon after surgery? The nurse said it would be fine (including rollercoasters and drop rides) but I don't entirely trust her.
I (38f) was on a flight to visit my sister and experienced bad chest pain as we were reaching altitude. Once we landed it felt better but my chest was a bit tight and uncomfortable. I brushed it off as gas from the plane and went about my vacation. After a few days, I noticed that I was short of breath and went to the ER. I was fully expecting them to send me home, but the doctor walked in my room with a surprised smile, informing me that it was a collapsed lung.
Fast forward, I had VATS, pleurodesis, blebectomy (x2) and was discharged a couple of days later. I was there for a week total.
I keep reading that this mostly happens to young men, but that is not my case at all. I am relatively tall and fit and never a smoker.
The doctors and hospital staff made it seem like this would be an easy surgery with little downtime for recovery, but I'm two weeks out from being discharged, and I'm still taking painkillers all day, and it's difficult to walk around comfortably.
What is the typical turnaround time for feeling mostly like myself again, realistically?
I know NYT received recent backlash because of extremely low pay to their content creators/recipe developers.
It's strange that she used to appear on their channel a few times a year, and this year she's only done recipes for them on her channel.
Sorry in advance if this isn't an appropriate topic for this sub.