I've been in the hospital for minor outpatient surgeries as well as major surgeries, such as to remove cancers. I'm a two time cancer survivor and the first time I had surgery, I was in the ICU for 3 days and then in another part of the hospital for about 5 more days or so? It wasn't any fun and I had a feeding tube that didn't get along with me, so the last two days I told them to take it out and I just wouldn't eat.