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Surgery and Recovery. If you are approved for the donation after all of the tests are completed, the surgery will be scheduled. The surgery is usually scheduled four to six weeks in advance. Typically, a living kidney transplant donor spends two days in the hospital, and will have an additional four to six weeks of recovery time. Donors who are from out of town should plan on spending an extra week in town after they discharged from the hospital. During recovery, you will experience some pain and discomfort.
Recovery time is one of the most common questions posed to specialists. There are many factors that can contribute to your recovery time from this procedure, but typically patients can hope to return to normal life activities within 1 to 6 months. To be more specific on your recovery time, however, we need to examine the difference between short-term recovery and long-term recovery.