Well, I survived the surgery. I did have to wait at the hospital for four hours (most of that time without a book or TV or anything, just staring at the walls or napping out of sheer boredom) before I actually went in to surgery at 4:40pm because I was the fifth person in line for surgery and they told us all to turn up at the same time. It was boring and frustrating and I really wished there was someone there to give me a hug, but I made it through somehow. It was interesting to compare the... read more
