I am a cancer warrior and have my full colon and rectum removal scheduled. I'm quite scared as the most surgery I ever had was a wisdom tooth removed. What is recovery typically like? I have little kiddos (early elementary age) and just moved very far away from friends and family (except kids and husband) so I'm scheduling people's visits to care for me post-op. So how long am I likely bedridden? How long where I will still need help to get out of bed and the like? When can I drive? When can life be where I don't need help...meaning I can cook for myself, walk around the neighborhood, clean the house, garden, cook without help or needing major help/reat? As I am normally a very busy stay-at-home mom. I don't want to get flights for family and end up sending them home before I should. Whew...I'm so very nervous.

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