Thursday, June 19, 2008

Why I Hate Having Surgery

Yes, I know, no one likes having surgery. But today's activities made me remember more reasons why I don't like it. It took four hours to go through all the pre-op routines at two different places. The surgery will take about a half an hour. There is no logic to this.

And I had to sign a whole bunch of forms saying it's ok if they somehow maim, paralyze or kill me. I had to say that it is ok for them to do whatever they want with any body parts, including limbs, that they take during surgery. I hope they don't need any organs or limbs for transplant that day. Maybe that's not what they had in mind...

All of this for what is supposed to be quick, minor routine surgery to fix two tears in the mensicus in my right knee. At least I have lots of knitting projects for the recovery period. :-)