best thing about any surgery is the recovery
I'm a bit of a masochist in that regard though - loved the pain of trying to get my stomach muscles working after having a few ft of my intestines removed in 2002 and trying to get pushups back after snapping humerous was a right bitch
on the upside after the gut surgery I was ordered by the docs to eat as much trifle as possible
(I didn't bother with the candles and ribbons after the first few)