The good news is I can take up to two weeks off. The bad news is I can't ride the bike! Just got out of the hospital yesterday after the cervical surgery. Good thing I stopped at the pharmacy and got the prescription for hydromorphone filled! I usually don't take pain killer, I like to feel a bit of pain just to feel alive, but I'm getting more feeling in some of the nerves coming from the spinal cord. Will be back on the bike in six weeks!
Actually, the doc said I can ride a stationary bike in the meantime. A friend says I should take it really easy and go back gradually. But she was surprised how much I was walking around after surgery. I told her I had been doing a lot of riding prior to, in order to be really fit going into the surgery. I think this is the best advice I could give anybody going into surgery.
L.