Cataract surgery went well.

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18. My orthopedist was a strong evangelical who sometimes expressed his religiosity during

office visits. This is in SW Ohio, where strong evangelicals are not usually found among sophisticated, highly-educated professionals.
At the time, he was among the leading orthopedists in the area and his patients just acknowledged that his religiosity was just part of the big picture when one selected him as their physician.

Now, I am a life-long practicing Catholic who would rather have had my kind of prayers before knee replacement surgery, if there was going to be any kind of supplication to the Deity. Knowing the good doctor would be praying over me, I brought along a small vial of water from Lourdes to sprinkle on him, on me, or anywhere else as the situation might require. Well, the situation did not require use of the Lourdes water, the surgery was a success, and, luckily for me, there was no music in the operating room that I recall.