Recovery time from operations

Your doctor is the best (maybe the only) one to make that call. Heck it's winter time so going slow will be easy. When every thing goes well they encourage activity with caution. 20 years ago I had brain surgery and with the doctor's approval, started riding the bicycle in a week and flying 747s in a month. Patience young man. When the doctor does his magic, the operation will be a dim memory in a few months but until then, let him call the shots.

Bill is of course right with his “listen to the doctor” but,
When I had my Appendix taken out I left it for 4 weeks before I could take it no more. Had a couple of real slow and easy dive’s and over a few weeks worked back up to the normal stuff with no problems.
Take it slow and if your body is saying NO THAT HURTS then don’t do it!

I had a mole removed from my back... It was healing niceley... A week after the stitches were removed I got back into training :martialand I went spearfishing. The wound opened up again and took more than a month to heal after this.:crutch

My advice is to make sure that at least the cut has healed properly if you have been for an open wound operation. Remember in some places, such as those close to big cities etc. ,the water may be polluted which can also cause complications when your body is exposed to such water.

One of the best reefs in South Africa - the Aliwal Shoal gets so polluted because of a factory discharge pipe which is extremely close to the reef, that dolphins and other sea animals die because of the high level of toxicity. Moral of the story, make sure you are healed, don't push it, watch spearing clips on youtube to get you by.