i just have to add my 2 cents worth - thank God that we have such wonderful nurses and doctors. I just had major surgery 3 weeks ago. I had "aorto bi-femoral bypass". i had blockage in my iliac arteries on both sides, the vascular surgeons cut me down the middle from breast bone to pubic bone, then 2 more incisions one on either side of that big one to join the graft below the iliac arteries with the top end joined to the aorta where it comes out of the diaphram. i had the best nurses, orderlies, male nurses etc etc in the world, thank God for all of you and all of them.