I will say this, having had two very major abdominal surgeries similar to a hystorectomy myself (two caesarean sections), I was able to sit up and sit for a few hours at a time the day I got out of the surgery. It was extremely painful but I could do it (and had to, considering that I had to feed the babies, etc). I'm not really that surprised if Tala was up the day of or a day or so after. Different people have different pain tolerances. Being able to WORK is another story. There is NO WAY IN HELL I'm going to be able to work for a while after I have my c-section and hysto (on March 4th), but there's no way I'm gonna be able to stay in bed, either (not with two kids and a newborn). As for the rest of the situation, I'm not even going there but that's my two cents on THAT part of it
