Cindi - Not only do you need to arrange to stay in the hospital for a few days as your doctor suggests, you need to arrange help for you and your husband for at least a couple weeks after you get home.
The first few days you will need to focus on ice, self-care, ice, rest, ice and may need help positioning in bed, doing basic therapy exercises, with showering, etc. You will not be doing laundry, cooking, caring for someone else...these are major surgeries, and you cannot recuperate and try to be a caregiver at the same time.

Do you have family members who you can truly rely on for this daily assistance for at least a week? If not, now is the time to look into how you will handle it. If you spend at least 72 hours in the hospital, home care, household help with ADL (activities of daily living) and home PT can be prescribed and paid for through Medicare. Maybe that is why the doc would like you to stay? Like all else in the marketplace right now, home care is in short supply, so you need to arrange it in advance. The hospital social worker or your state office on aging can help you with resources.

Have you been thinking about any of these details yet? Don't let it overwhelm you - there are plenty of people on Connect who can step up with suggestions.
Keep asking questions, and keep your goal in mind - fixing the @#$%& pain!
Sue