Sukigirl,
I am ground staff and i had the surgery thursday afternoon and was back at work for a 4.30am shift on the saturday. I doubt that there would be any requirement for staff - cabin or ground - to be away from normal duties for anything longer than a week or so by now, unless there were some kind of complications. There have been a lot of improvements & advances in this area in the last decade, so i think taking a month off flying duties may have been valid 10 years ago but surely not anymore.