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Prompted by TMZ.com's late Friday afternoon posting of a video documenting Lindsay Lohan's speedy release from the hospital just a day after undergoing surgery to remove a superfluous internal organ (i.e., any one not involved in the metabolizing of alcoholic beverages), we wondered aloud about the customary recovery time for an imaginary appendectomy. But based on this trio of Lohan sightings submitted by our readers, the actress bested even the most optimistic fake-surgery prognosis, hitting the town as early as Friday night in a display of rapid healing that would make the impervious cheerleader from Heroes jealous:

So, she's officially been sprung from the hospital. Or she pulled the Vodka IV from her arm and fled.

Friday night, late table at Pace. In walks La Lohan with Joe Francis (so much for the feud) and 4-6 young citizens. They get a large table right behind the bar and end up - I kid you not - loudly toasting "to the hotel staff." Wine the day after getting cut open? Hmmmmm. As I left, ran smack into a swarm of photographers, staked out around her SUV on big chrome rims.

· Ok, ok, so I was a bio major back in college, and my mom is a doctor, so I feel qualified: Unless doctors have come up with some sort of new "totally painless magic removal" process for appendectomies, there is no f'ing way Lindsay should have been ok to hang out at Les Deux on Friday night (1/5)!! Although nothing was immediately spotted that qualified as an alcoholic beverage (unless the voss bottle was full of vodka...) she definitely seemed to be moving without any of the "my stomach still feels like somebody is stabbing me if I try to stand up straight" apprehension that is normally apparent for at least a few days after surgery. Benefit of the doubt was almost given when she left a bit early, but I think that was around the same time the DJ played "stars are blind (obviously because they think I'm hot)" while Paris began dancing on her table so the entire bar could gaze adoringly/pin her with evil bitch stares. That was enough to turn anyone's stomach. However, the aforementioned benefit was revoked when she resurfaced at Barry Zito's party later that morning (that sighting is secondhand though; don't want y'all to think I'm cool enough to snag that invite).

· "Lohan sighting: Teddy's Saturday night starting around 11. Looking adequate. Several trips to the bathroom, at least once with a male member of her entourage following her into the ladies room, or maybe it was a girl, they were ambiguous. Probably just changing the dressing on her appendix wound, right? Blackberry in hand, I hope a new year resolution missive is on the way."

Lohan, it seems, is even more special than we previously believed, as even the most non-intrusive, publicist-performed procedures (such as rehydration, de-exhaustion, or the supplying of an asthma inhaler to a perliously wheezy starlet) usually requires at least 48 hours of recuperation before a return to the clubs. We're clearly all witnessing a true miracle of make-believe medicine.