I asked her permission to tell you this, of course, and she had no problem with it. Mom wasn't worried about her hysterectomy. In fact, she was looking forward to it.
Mom likes surgery.
She likes lying around in hospitals, she likes being waited on hand and foot, and she likes being doped up on medication. A surgery for her is like going to Club Med for regular people. So she goes in for the surgery, and she's given the option of staying awake for it. She went for this option, because, ever-curious, she wanted to watch the procedure. Imagine her disappointment, then, when they put a curtain over the regions involved while a crew of 85 doctors went to work removing parts of her.