If I was born during the 60's I would NOT have surgeries of any kind because their surgical techniques and technology is not as good as it is today and they scare me. When I hear stories of people having surgeries in the 60s it scares me, and makes me grateful I was born in 1980 where technology and surgical techniques were so much better as I was born with hip dysplasia that required several major surgeries to fix it and I was in a body cast every time for 6 months, and I didn't walk until I was 4 years old, then I moved to Milwaukee from Colorado while in a body cast from the last surgery (2-3 days on the road!!!), and then a few months later I also had another surgery to repair my right ear lobe that was bitten off by a dog when I was 4 1/2 years old, and even today you can't even tell the difference between my ear lobes UNLESS you touched them and squeezed them, that will be the only way to tell as you will feel the tissue on my right ear lobe is thicker than the left one - that is scar tissue. And I am glad this is 2009 now because it makes me less scared because there are always newer surgical techniques and newer technology.
