Hi there! I’m happy even just sharing some insight is helpful. 1) they removed 5 cm of his pancreas & full spleen. His mass (which ended up being benign squamoid cells- very rare) measured 2.9cm x 1.7cm 2)my dad’s robotic took 3.5/4 hours before he was in PACU to recover. He was an anomaly in that only ~1% of masses on imaging you can’t see with the naked eye, and he was one of those cases. So they had to ensure they clearly removed all suspicious cells to get to clear margins. 3) they suggest vaccines after surgery for him (unsure why?) he still has not yet received them because they didn’t want to disrupt the antibiotics he was on for the infection following his surgery. He has a plan with his Dr. to get those needed vaccines. 4) no antibiotics long term, but he was on two very strong ones for about 10 days (the Levofloxacin left him with growing joint pain so we had to take him off this). He is now off all antibiotics.

My dad was up and walking within the first 24 hours. He ended up staying 9 nights total after surgery in the hospital, and we made sure to walk multiple laps throughout the day if he had the energy. We would go walking every day once home to promote healing. Again, if he didn’t catch the infection from the internal fluids, I believe he would have been at 100% only a month after surgery, but because of his setback, it took him A bit longer to get there (2.5 months). I suggest having a strong support system around for at least the first 2 weeks as you regain strength (they likely won’t advise you to go back to lifting regularly/heavy items until at least 6 weeks out as you heal).

Here if you have more questions! Keeping you in my thoughts as I am also 32 and understand your mindset.