I had a foot or so of intestine removed when I was ten, spent a few months not moving around much. Oddly, I minded what the morphine did to my head more than the stabbing pain. The nurses gave me weird looks when I didn't use up my allotment of dispense-happyjuice-button pushes. Then the stitches tore and the incision reopened, took another month+ to heal. I don't recommend it.

Worst part was the NG tube, actually. Eugh, I hated that thing.

TL;DR: Surgery sucks, you guys.

Edit: Wow, what kind of mood was I in when I wrote this? I'd apologize for dribbling my gooey self-disclosure on the thread, but I seem to have been upvoted (?), so ok then.