Even in the hospital ICU they got me up in a recliner for part of the day even with all the wires hoses etc. I had a similar routine the 1st 3 weeks at home. Tuesday will be the 3 month mark for me and I am still using the heart pillow Mayo gave me primarily because the occasional sneeze hurts like hades. The early morning hours from 3 to 4 there was a lab tech coming in every morning to take blood and an x-ray tech to do chest X-Rays.