Of course! Dad's stay in the hospital for the first surgery (the fibular reconstruction) was 7 days. I think it was 9 days the second time (scapular reconstruction), after rads. They told us to plan for a 7-10 day stay each time. Dad was actually sitting in a chair and having tube-fed meals two days after surgery with his fibular reconstruction. He was walking to the bathroom with assistance and a walker four days out? And he was making laps around the hospital before we went home. We came home with just a cane. He had a visiting home nurse come check his wounds and do strengthening exercises with him for about a month. He used the cane for several months if we had to go shopping, or back to Boston for follow up, or any place that required more than a few minutes of continuous walking. Now he doesn't use a cane. I think his ability to press his foot down isn't quite as strong as it was before as he's only occasionally driven his beloved standard-shift street rod since. He gets around really well these days, though. Likes to tinker on his cars and walk down behind our house to where the parts cars are a few times a day.

They told my dad before his second procedure that the fibula is the most painful of the places to take the tissues for reconstruction, but Dad said he wasn't really in pain after the first surgery, and having an injured arm was more difficult, painful and inconvenient.