A few days
A few days is when you hope things will get better, but you also hope they won’t get worse.
"I’ll be back in a few days," he said, then showed up with a whole new problem.
"A few days later, my life was still a mess, but at least the mess was a little different this time."
"I said I'd be back in a few days. I was back in a few days, but also in a few hours, and also in a few minutes."