@ameliaboone I think my dr recommended either 7 or 14 days, but I ended up out of contacts for almost a month (the consult and procedure were pretty close together). Running and playing volleyball with glasses were 2 of my biggest worries, but neither ended up being a problem.
On the surface, it seems difficult to impart the lessons failure if a person didn't have a "fail" time early in life, but those lessons are incredibly valuable to an employee, particularly those who are already great in other areas.
Just finished @jesslahey's The Gift of Failure. I don't have kids, but still took so much away from the book. It was interesting to be able to draw connections to my own educational experience as well.
My biggest follow on question is if there are any suggestions or resources for dealing with coworkers (supervisors, peers, and mainly subordinates) who were never exposed to failure as the book suggests, and now have many of the bad habits in adulthood?