On 20/08/2013 6:30 PM, George Leppla wrote:

>
>> Thanks. This laproscopic surgery was a piece of cake compared to the
>> heart surgery. It took me almost 6 months to get back to where I am
>> after just two days after the GB.
>
> Laproscopic surgery is a great step forward in medicine. It has
> limitations and some drawbacks but all in all, it is a pretty wonderful
> medical advance. I've had both kinds (lap and open) and if given a
> choice, I would take lap surgery any day.
>

My father had his out around 1961-62. He had an incision more than a
foot long and a drain in it for the two weeks he was hospitalized. I
had to stay for two nights after but most people go through the two hour
procedure and two hour recovery.