You possibly could. You'll be very tired, but if everything goes well, you should be upright and walking OK.
I had a double mastectomy and DIEP reconstruction at the end of April. I had a great deal of trouble with low blood pressure and was not able to stand up without starting to pass out for four days. This put me behind schedule and I was in hospital for 10 days. They like to have you up and moving the day after the operation.
If you've been exercising regularly that will be a help for the speed of your recovery. Do the exercises the physio gives you religiously! Pace yourself, don't overdo it, and conserve your emotional and physical energy in order to spend it at the graduation. Keep visitors to a minimum. It is an exhausting operation, as is the post-operative monitoring.
If you're having your operation on Tuesday 11/12 and the graduation is a week after that, with luck and assistance, you could just make it. It will be a stretch though. So if you don't make it, remember that most of all your son wants you well and happy and around for a long time. You can get someone to hold up a tablet or phone to FaceTime the whole thing, and there will be videos galore taken I'm sure.
Good on you for being brave and going for this op. I have no regrets for mine. Feel free to PM me if you want to chat privately. My story's in the Choosing Breast Reconstruction group, in detail... bit of a long read! K xox
