I have the opportunity to have a peri-areolar mastectomy on March 11th. I am currently in college and attend class on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. My spring break is from March 10-16. So, if I have surgery on the 11th do you guys think I would be ready to go back to class on the 19th? Or should I schedule the surgery for after this semester is over?

Not to be a killjoy, but I'd play it safe and wait for the end of the semester.

I know you're excited for surgery, and it's hard to wait, but I would really suggest that you do it in the summer. Everyone's recovery rate is different, and I'm not sure if you'd be able to go out and about that soon after surgery. Also, you never know how your body might react to the medications or the surgery--you may feel under the weather for a few days.

Congratulations of making this much progress!

wait. i thought i'd be able to have surgery and go to my math class the next week. nope. HELL NOPE. some people bounce back really quick, but most people are down for the count for a two weeks.

I had surgery on the Thursday before spring break last year. I missed my Friday class, and I think I missed a day or two of classes once they started up again, so I had maybe 11 or 12 days to recover. If you'd have to go back to class after a week, I'd say that's too soon.

I did the chest surgery, spring break, and back to class thing.  It was a Real Man^TM thing to do...  Which translates to a real stupid man. 

If you can afford to skip the classes in the week following spring break, then accept that week will be a write off, and go for it.  If you can't afford the extra week, then wait until summer.  In the grand scheme of things a few months is nothing.

Talk with your profs if you really want to do it ASAP, and get the readings/assignments ahead of time.  So before surgery you would have already done the work that your classmates would do when they get back to class, and you're hanging at home in a robe.

Shortman

I would schedule it after the semester ends and call it your reward for finishing up the semester.  I wouldn't want to have to go under the knife and try to hurry back to class the next week.