re: Plastic surgery

I was lucky to have a badass surgeon perform several surgeries on my hand after a work accident. Suman K. Das... I'll never forget his name and the amount of time he spent taking to me while I was in the hospital.

The guy was the best of the best...immigrated from India as a surgeon, and the medical board, in their infinite wisdom, told him he could be a doctor but not a surgeon in the U.S. He went through school and residency a second time here in the U.S. to be a surgeon. Was head of the surgical department at a regional med center when I showed up at the ER with a mangled hand. That man saved my hand, and he joked that his real job was training surgeons who went on to be millionaire plastic surgeons, in the true sense of the term. To his credit, he finally went into private practice.

So, technically, I've been cut on by a "plastic surgeon." And the morphine pump was awesome, but coming down to Tylox sucked.