My last foot surgery required 3 days in the hospital. I told the doctor I wasn't going to the hospital at all - he could do it in the surgery center and I'd go home as soon as I was coherent. Hospitals are for sick people, IMO. He let me do so - this wasn't our first surgery together. I was home by early afternoon and did just fine. Though I couldn't talk my way out of 13 weeks casted. Grr.