First of all, everyone is different and their course of care and recovery is different. My husband had his surgery at Mayo Rochester. Where will your husband have his surgery? My husband went straight from operating room to recovery room to his room on the floor and was in the hospital 8 days without any complications. He was 73 years old and had had coronary bypass surgery only eleven months prior. I don’t know what visitor precautions are in place now because of the pandemic but I was able to visit then as I wished. I stayed in a hotel across the street from the hospital and went back and forth. When he was discharged from the hospital we stayed in a hotel in town a couple days to be sure we were ready to drive six hours home. His pain was well controlled with a block from surgery and an epidural for several days after. Then he went straight to only needing Tylenol. The only time he took an opioid was just before we drove home so we knew he wouldn’t suffer discomfort during the long drive. At home he did have some episodes of nausea and vomiting and we ended up in the local ER several days later for assistance. The doctor in ER contacted Mayo directly and the surgeon’s physician assistant prescribed additional meds that were effective. He went home with a feeding tube that was placed in surgery just in case he needed it that we flushed each day as well as an injection that was easy to give to prevent blood clots. He never needed to receive feedings from the tube feeding. He began Folfirinox chemotherapy two months after his surgery. He had not received any before surgery because it wasn’t certain that he did in fact have a malignancy, only that he had large cysts In the head of the pancreas that were worrisome. I would be happy to communicate with you as your husband goes through his surgery and recovery. Good Luck!