how long would a person have to be in hospital after having a lower part of a leg removed My husband is waiting to have the lower part of his leg removed due to an infection in the bone of his foot, he is 60 yrs old, and has parkinson s disease that effects his left arm when not controlled by drugs, how long would the stay in hospital be after the operation, roughly? He has been in for two weeks now, they told him last monday he would need to have the lower part of his leg removed, and said it would be treated as a planned operation, what ever that means.