I was in hospital preparing for my surgery: wrist band, hospital gown, gurney, a shot of some tranquilizer to relax me while we waited for surgeon and the operating room to be cleared and sanitized. The area for the surgery was shaved and a nurse put a mask over my face and told me to breathe deep. It was another tranquilizing drug that rendered me drowsily conscious but unable to feel anything or speak. Some nurse prepared a catheter but I could not see its insertion. Then we waited. And then I woke.