Day 1-3 you need help with toilet paper, dressing. Day 7 can fix an easy meal. Day 14-20 go back to a desk job. Day 30 back to all activities. Comfort : Day 1-21 get a box of non sterile rolled gauze bandages. Scrunch up & put in arm pits under a long sleeve jersey to hold in place. Keeps pits dry because incisions weep & you sweat. Scrars: Start Kel-o-cote from Amazon week 6. Put on a thin layer, dry with cool hair dryer, put dusting powder on top to get rid of the rubbery sticky feeling.