It's pretty much light duty for a couple weeks and then you will be good to go. Make sure you move, take fluids and don't get constipated. Any of the symptoms that brought you in are basically what you want to be alert to for complications.
Mine got removed when I was 25. I was on a hotshot forest service fire fighting crew. We were going from a fire in middle of nowhere Nevada to a fire in middle of nowhere Utah and stopped for the night in Salt Lake City. Started having intense pain and was puking. The foreman drove me to the hospital at 4am from the hotel room. Got it removed and they flew me to Boise the next day and then a Forest Service person drove me to La Grande Oregon and then I went home to Walla Walla to, "recover."
Within a few days I got a phone call that the Forest Service was not going to cover my appendix surgery because it happened at night. Keep in mind I was with the crew when this occurred, in a hotel room paid for by the Forest Service. If you know anything about how these crews operate, you basically live with your crew all summer going from one fire to next with just a few mandatory days off. 800+ hours of overtime is a good summer.
So then I started getting bill collection phone calls right away from the Hospital in Utah. I think the total was around 15 grand that I didn't have.
Since I was generally broke except for fire season, I went back to firefighting as soon as my crew got back which was about a week.
I never had a follow up. It wasn't like I had a doctors note saying cleared to return to work. I just showed up and back to fighting fires with the next dispatch. I was very lucky I didn't have any complication out on some fire in the middle of the sticks.
For about the next two months every time I had cell service because a lot of times we didnt, I had to tend to those collection phone calls and messages.
Looking back I really should have fought it but I was young, dumb and didn't feel like I had any options.
Don't be stupid like me and you should be fine.
