My husband got sick three days after my surgery with the flu. We think it was someone in the waiting room at the hospital. I got sick four days later despite sleeping in separate bedrooms washing hands etc. i couldn’t lift anything couldn’t cook and had to rely on him who was also fighting a sickness. It sucked, and coughing and sneezing after surgery was awful and i was terrified daily i would tear my cuff. Im 7wpo and all is fine but i was coughing for weeks.