Hope they get to feeling better before they have to go back to work. Surgery for a ruptured appendix can be very serious and recuperation time can be long. Depends on your age and how healthy you were before surgery. Also depends on what type of work you do. My DSIL had a ruptured apppendix and it took him quite a while till he felt 100%. He's a software/hardware design engineer so he sits mostly and he was in his late 20's and healthy.
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