Care and Recovery after Brain Surgery. After brain surgery, it will take time for the patient to return to his/her usual level of energy. Healing requires extra rest. The amount of time required to recover after brain surgery is different for each person and depends on: The procedure used to remove the brain tumor.
Synonyms: work, labor, toil 1, drudgery, travail. These nouns refer to physical or mental effort expended to produce or accomplish something. Work is the most widely applicable: hard work in the fields; did some work around the house on weekends; a first draft that still needs work.. To place or insert in by repeated or continuous effort: worked the pick into the lock. work off. To get rid of by work or effort: work off extra pounds; work off a debt.
The phrase  What a piece of work is a man!  comes from Shakespeare 's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act II, Scene 2, and is often used in reference to the whole speech containing the line.