Travelling home from surgery on a train – is it terrible?!

My surgery is close and im worrying myself silly about everything!

I am not nervous about the pain after surgery as ive had a c-sec and vbac in recent years and no pain can scare me anymore haha! I just wanted to ask if anyone travelled home from their surgery on public transport? I know a lot of women take the train.

I have a 2 hour train journey (including a change) home the day AFTER my surgery and im scared! Scared of jostling about, scared of not being able to use the toilet on my own (what happens if i have to use the train toilet!?) and just all round worrying!

If you came home on the train how did you manage to keep comfy and calm lol!? Will i be able to move very easily on that following morning? I wish i could just teleport myself back home!! 🙂

Hi honey! How exciting for you!
Are you travelling alone or do you have someone to go with you?
I went home the same evening via car but I did travel on a train 1wpo and even that was tough for me.
If there’s no way you can get there by car and back, then you need to be really careful. Avoid travelling at peak times, wait for quieter trains, take a pillow for your comfort during the journey and try your best to completely avoid being near crowds. I know that’s tough in a train station.. but you really don’t want to be knocked.
Xx

@cherrycola Hi Gem
I worried about absolutey everything on the run up to surgery! Once it’s over you’ll wonder why you stressed your self out so much 😀 Is there not anybody that could help you with transport? I was in very little pain on surgery day but they day after it all hit me and i couldnt move or get up. As Leanne already said you don’t want to be knocked and the last thing you will want to do the day after surgery is walk around and wait for trains, you will have very little energy and have to take it really easy. When is your surgery, & where is it you need to get to & from? Xx

Thanks for the replies! I am about a four hour drive out from London, and i would have to go on a train for at least half of the journey, even if i was picked up in the car a bit closer to London 🙁 Because it takes 2 hours on a train it obviously feels it makes more sense than my husband driving four hours up and four hours back (and theres also no-one at home to have the children if he is out driving for most of the day!).

Do you think it would be better to travel home on the train the day OF the surgery? I know a lot of women say it hit them the day after, so if i am discharged early enough in the day, should i just head straight home? I am nervous about being woozy and a bit out of it!

Edit: I will be accompanied by my MIL on the train journey.

Hey, I went home on the train after a BA and uplift, so I stayed overnight as had op at 7pm, and I travelled next day at 3.30pm as soon as a I could – my train was delayed by an hour so took me 4.5 hours to get home – it was absolutely fine I just slept x

Hey Gem! The only thing I’d add to what the girls have already said is to take a sick bowl with you just incase. I was a day case and wasn’t sick in the hospital (I actually felt fine by the time I left) but 10 mins into the car journey home I was sick xx

Hi Gem, I had 2 hour journey on train with 1 change, day after surgery. Train was fine really it was the taxi to and from station that was a flippin nightmare!!! X

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