It´s a little more than two weeks since Diane Gladowski, 79, had surgery on her abdomen to repair a hernia, and she´s surprised by how quickly she´s recovering. She´s had surgery before -- hysterectomies, appendectomies, gallbladder surgery -- that left her laid up in an opiate-induced haze for weeks. This time, she went home the same day as the surgery, needed only two opioid pain pills to recover and is already able to perform her favorite type of exercise -- waltzing to a classical music program on TV. `I was usually in the hospital, what, five days at least, after all the other surgeries. And then you went home and were still in pain and didn´t do anything,` said Gladowski, of Bismarck....
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