I'm not at all an expert on hernias, but it's not just the stomach area where a hernia can take place. It sounds like the definition is basically any time:

tissue or an organ exit through the wall of the cavity in which it normally resides.

So, not sure what organ or tissue was primarily pushing through on my wife, but it wasn't her stomach.

She has a four week off full-duty restriction and potentially a two week where she could return to light duty if they had it. Unfortunately, she already knows there isn't any light duty. Plus, she's heading to Mexico to visit family three weeks from today which she scheduled at the beginning of the year, so she won't actually be back to work for five weeks.

So, she's not specifically bedridden for any length of time, just that it's painful to move around and probably will be for another 48 hours or so. She is supposed to do some walking, so we'll need to figure out how to make that happen.

re: good to have me back

It's good to be back, as much as I am right now, anyway. Doing this in between calls for one kind of help or another. :)