Inserted

    I'm feeling better about the whole pacemaker situation because of one word. Dad said that he's having a pacemaker "inserted." This seems a lot more gentle than the kind of procedure that I was envisioning, which involved opening the rib cage. But indeed, I did have the impression that it was more of a procedure than an operation, and insertion is a lot more procedure-sounding than what I was thinking is. So I'm considerably more relaxed about the whole scene, and expecting to be able to take him straight home, feeling a lot better himself, hopefully.