@jjevitts I’m so glad to see your post as I’ve been wondering how you are doing. We are close in age (I’m 71 years old) and I sure don’t bounce back like I used to either. Ten days isn’t all that long when you think about it depending on the extent of the surgery. Also, we don’t stay in the hospital for very long as used to be the case.

When I had kidney surgery in 1996 they wanted me to go home the following day. I did stay one more day but was sent home with very few instructions and felt very weak and « beat up » for at least two weeks. I know this isn’t the same surgery you had but I do recall how much pain I had and that it was more than a week before I could even go for a walk on my street. The surgery was endoscopic and so I had a 1 inch incision. But the real healing was on the inside of the kidney.

Here are my suggestions which you can take if you want because I don’t know the extent of your surgery. Walk every day. Move around as you feel you can. If you feel up to it, walk to the end of your driveway (assuming it’s less than a mile!). It takes time to heal from the anesthesia too (did you have general anesthesia?). One of my doctors told me that the more I lie around the more tired I will be. That was good advice and I tried to do what I could.

You have been in my thoughts and ❤️. I’m tagging @gynosaur42 so she can jump in too.

Do you know what the further treatment will be? And when it will start?