Mary Roach
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Tendon.
Your Achilles heel.
I don't want anybody else's Achilles heel.
Yeah.
Well, the operating room that I was in for this book was an orthopedic operating room, so it sounded like a wood shop.
Nope, don't like it.
There are literally power saws going, a reamer.
There was a reamer going.
Nope, nope, nope.
It was like reaming out to get rid of the damaged cartilage and kind of prepare the surface where you're going to put the socket for the ball, the ball and socket joint.
And then there's a surgical mallet, which is a metal mallet.
And it sounds exactly like putting in a tent stake.
Yeah.
So those are the sounds that you hear.
I don't think I heard anything squishy.
Sometimes if they're doing the laser cauterizing wand, there's kind of a cooked flesh smell.
Does it smell like barbecue?
A little bit.
Yeah, I remember saying the first time I smelled that to the surgeon, do you find that smell a little bit pleasant?
What'd they say?