You say "Thank you. My surgeon is happy with my progress. I'm having a normal recovery for this surgery."What do you say to those friends who ask you “geez, why aren’t you able to do xyz?” “Why can’t you do more by now? I read it only take 4-6 weeks to get back to life”. To this I want to scream and cry.
While the odd, very rare person may have such a swift recovery, most of those stories are urban myth. It simply doesn't happen that way.I read about people getting up and walking around day one and playing tennis week 3.
For most of us, recovery is a long, slow process, demanding all the patience we can find.