I won’t lie. I had a difficult experience. I don’t think it’s that way for everyone. In addition to the physical challenge, it can be a mental challenge and, for me, it lead to other things, like an eating disorder and mental fatigue. According to my doctor, these problems are pretty common.
In fact, he said, it can be so psychologically and physically challenging that in Canada they have an entire institute that’s dedicated to helping people with the different aspects of this issue. It’s called the RUDD CLINIC. I’m not affiliated with it but I thought I’d pass along their info in case it helped:
http://ruddclinic.com/patientinfo01.html
http://ruddclinic.com/resources.html
He said that’s it’s normal that it takes long to heal, from 6 months to a year. My healing process due to complications took about 12 months. It was a challenge but, like I said, you will get through it. Hope this helps.