Operations are not something that you do every week and an inguinal hernia is not a major one. In fact, it’s very minor! Still, you are put to sleep and someone slices up your insides and then you wake up and feel like you have arrived on another planet. Which is the easy part. It is then a case of doing nothing. Recovering, effectively. And doing nothing is actually pretty challenging. Laying Around To be honest, I did not realise how much the operation would take out of me. I even thought I would go back to work the week afterwards. Which now seems incredibly deluded! Fortunately wiser heads than…