The following dialogue should be required watching or reading for every hospital employee, if only because I reference it every time I get juiced up for surgery. It’s good to know my mind wanders to comedy when it loses control (during my first surgery when I was 12, I believed Red Skelton was peering over me in the operating room).
From The Meaning of Life, the scene where the woman is cured of birth.
Hospital Administrator: Ah, I see you have the machine that goes 'ping!'. This is my favourite. You see, we lease this back from the company we sold it to - that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
[The doctors and onlookers applaud.]
Hospital Administrator: Thank you, thank you. We try to do our best. Well, do carry on.
As for the actual procedure, all went well. I am walking without a cane or walker after three weeks. Out buying groceries. A few years ago rehab took a lot longer. New procedures, new meds, less downtime.