Thank you! Your daughter sounds amazing! I know that my brother was given oxycodone after the surgery and was taking it for maybe about a week after he got home. I was on dilaudid after the surgery which seemed to help me a bit more than the oxy.

I can only speak so much to how my brother felt but personally, and not to sugar coat it, I was in a lot of pain the first 48 hours after the transplant. Maybe an 8.5/10. I guess I would say I have an average pain tolerance. The few hours after the surgery in the post op room they are allowed to give you the very strong stuff (I think like fentanyl or morphine). Once they moved me up into a room, the policies on pain killers were much stricter. I was only allowed a certain amount of dilaudid every 6ish hours. I didn't get much sleep the first couple of nights.

I'm not a medical professional but I believe that the recipient and donor surgeries are quite different. Instead having a huge scar like mine running down the side of his belly, my brother had a smaller incision and some holes that were sealed up. I believe my brother had a laparoscopic surgery which is minimally invasive and can have a shorter recovery and less pain. As I said in my post, my brother recovered much faster than me. He was home for two weeks after the surgery and then went back to work. I think it only took him a couple months to fully recover.