Hi, good luck to you as your date approaches! I think in the beginning it is a good idea to stay with someone or have someone stay with you, maybe at least for a week? I have had 2 SCS implants and a revision and every time for the first couple days I have had trouble even getting up off of the couch on my own and needed someone to help pull me up. There will be a lot of pain in the beginning, so take your pain meds and rest a lot. Are you staying overnight in the hospital or doing the surgery outpatient? My cervical implant recovery was much harder than my thoracic one. With the stim for my legs, I was back to college classes after a week, still in a good deal of pain but at least able to sit through classes, but after the stim for my wrist there was no way I could have been back after just a week (thankfully I had that one done in the summer). Remember to BLAST, of course. Like I said, there definitely will be quite a lot of pain initially since they are putting objects inside your body, but it will subside and you'll be feeling so much great relief from the stim that it'll all be ok