Marydean, the killer part was no painkillers after surgery, lol. Actually, as long as I stayed laying down and still the surgical site didn't hurt much. But I did get shocking referred pain in my shoulder anytime I tried to sit up even a little. Did anyone else get that? The hospital staff didn't explain what caused it, so I had to wait a week until my post-op visit to my surgeon to find out that I wasn't going crazy, that the pain was real, but that it wasn't really shoulder pain, but instead it was irritation of my diaphram. Turns out that the carbon dioxide that was pumped into my abdominal cavity during surgery didn't all come out and when I tried to sit up it was rising and irritating the phrenic nerves and telling my brain it was my shoulder hurting. Our bodies are so weird sometimes!

As for why the video? Lol. I guess it was for 2 reasons. The first is that I am scientific by nature (did a science degree and am now a surgical vet nurse) so a part of me was curious about what exactly was being done inside my body. And the second reason was that I figured the surgeon would have to do an extra good job if he knew I was going to watch it afterwards