In clinical practice, patients often ask: Doctor, how long will it take for me to eat? I want a pillow! Traditionally, patients often need to lie flat on their pillows and fast for 6 hours after surgery. The purpose of this is to prevent vomiting before the patient is awake, which can lead to aspiration pneumonia. With the improvement of anesthesia and anesthesia technology, the recovery period after anesthesia has been greatly shortened, and it is even possible to control the anesthesia awake time exactly at the end of the surgery. As a provincial orthopedic hospital, most of our patients, especially those who undergo extremity surgery, are operated with regional block plus general anesthesia, with little use of general anesthetic drugs during surgery. If the patient adopts the flat position with the pillow removed, it will often make the patient feel uncomfortable, which will cause irritability and tension of the whole body muscles. As long as the patient is conscious, he or she can lie flat without pillow, or even be allowed to lie in a semi-recumbent or lateral position to improve the patient’s comfort. Prolonged postoperative restriction of patient’s feeding will not only easily lead to patient’s thirst and hunger, but also affect patient’s recovery of gastrointestinal function due to the delay of feeding time. Early feeding is beneficial to patients’ physical recovery, facilitating early functional exercise and promoting early postoperative recovery. Therefore, it is currently advocated that the feeding time of orthopedic surgery patients after general anesthesia (except for major surgery) can be appropriately advanced. 2 hours after surgery, patients can eat a small amount of clear, non-slagged liquid, and if there is no discomfort, they can eat easily digestible food or even eat normally.