u/Reasonable_Place_481

Hi all! So literally days after I received a fellowship to travel to Nepal and Bangladesh this summer, I had a bad flair and will be having surgery at the end of May. I asked my surgeon if there’s a chance I could push my trip to later in the summer (~6 or 7 weeks post surgery) and be able to go as well as handle luggage. His response was just “the minimum for travel would be 3 weeks.”

Surgery should be laproscopic sigmoidectomy and anostomosis (so if all goes well, no bag). How was your recovery? Is my timeline too ambitious? What would you do?

A resection is in my future after a second perforation and abscesses in 6 months. I live alone so am trying to plan. For those of you who have had surgery, how long did you need help at home once you were discharged?