Drink, Have Surgery, Chew Gum, Go Home: A New Approach

Drink, Have Surgery, Chew Gum, Go Home: A New Approach
Cleveland Clinic Center via AP

"I've been up, I did a few laps [around the ward]," Waldman says with a chuckle, making a small circle in the air with her finger.

Waldman is impressed with her own progress. She had shoulder surgery a few years ago and "was very nauseous afterward, I was vomiting, and I didn't have any of that this time," Waldman says.

"The difference in surgeries is marked," adds Waldman's husband, Neal. "When she came back from surgery a few years ago she was bloated, she was loopy. This time -- with a more major surgery — she came right to [the] room, she was not bloated, she was able to walk really quickly. So I believe in this -- I think it was amazing."

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