And here's the update! (I was looking on the wrong thread.)
I think I would have preferred childbirth to my arm surgery, as well, especially since I didn't ask for some fool to cause the accident that made my airbags deploy and break my arm in two places. Sometimes, surgeries can seem so pointless and frustrating. You usually WANT to be pregnant and bring a new life into the world -- that pain is expected and necessary; you definitely don't ask for messed-up plumbing that causes a hysterectomy.
I find it hard to believe that I have full use of my arm after only six months, and that there has been no SIGNIFICANT progress for four months. Which is to say, two months after the accident, I was pretty much all better. I have the awesome feeling that Mistress's recovery will be just the same way. Horendous, unbelieveable pain -- but a full, swift recovery that will have her looking back on this, just two months from now, as though it was all just a bad dream.
Please send her my love!