The week before surgery
“I'd told myself I was calm. Then Tuesday came.”
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Placeholder body. Pre-op week in close detail — the logistics, the fear, the family conversations. The hour before being wheeled in. The post-anesthesia confusion. Useful for any guy approaching his own surgery date.
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