Hernia operation and skiing

Hi all, I'm being sliced open on Wednesday for an umbilical hernia repair. Will I be ski fit by late February?

I had been quoted 13 weeks from Op to skiing, but then the surgeon for got to book me in. I threatened to send the bill for a family ski week to the hospital. That quickly put paid to the sniffy secretary that was dismissing my protests.

In the event, there was an eleven week gap. I was ever so careful. Sometimes took 4 minutes to ski down. :twisted:

Oneffoneff wrote:Hi all, I'm being sliced open on Wednesday for an umbilical hernia repair. Will I be ski fit by late February?

Hmmmm, don't think anyone here is qualified to answer you. Ask your surgeon, and tell him it's important )

Good Luck for a swift recovery :thumbup:

Yipes, I'm not saying that is the norm. Yes, ask the surgeon, thats what I did.....

I had a double one done several years ago. Now I'm old but it only took 8 weeks to be fully fit again before I was back playing cricket badminton and then skiing. Seek doctors advice first but if you get yourself fit and go careful you should be OK.