[Judy]

I was able to do all this for myself same day
(actually my surgery was late in the day on Saturday and was brought to my room by 11:00 a.m. next morning and within 15 minutes I needed to go to the bathroom and they let me do this on my own) as surgery. I went very very slow and made sure I did not twist.
I don't know if because I am a very independent person and needed to this for myself but there were no restrictions and I did not have any problems. The hardest thing I had was putting on socks I found this very difficult and time consuming and usually my husband could not stand to watch me do this so he did it for the first week.

Judy