Pre Op check for Joe

I've been at the hospital this morning with Michelle and Joe for the pre-op briefing. Everything sounds okay apart from the recovery time. For some reason the impression we had was that he'd be at the hospital for a day and that was it. I've already said previously that I was wondering how it would leave Joe feeling and speculated that perhaps he'd be back on crutches for a while, but today the nurse said that he'd be at home for 2 weeks recovering which is a bit of a shock as we both work and we're now having to consider taking more time off. The only caveat was that the nurse said that the consultant would give us more specific times, but I have been on-line looking at forums (Motorcycle accidents) and their experiences and it looks as though it may be a 2 week off period...