Good ******* lord…
I just had the op to remove the pins. However there was a catch.
Essentially, the surgeon said they didn’t have any beds in recovery, so they couldn’t do the full op. Unless I opted to go in with no painkillers, no anaesthetic, and they just whipped the bits of metal out with some pliers.
Needless to say, after sitting in the theater with two junior doctors pulling my arm one way, and a burly surgeon pulling the pliers the other, blood instantly flooding out of the holes, I felt a bit woozy and had to have a lie down with an oxygen mask on.