'Older than dirt quiz'

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40. I remember all of them.

On Mickey Mouse: The new Disney Program was advertized before its first day on the air. I was looking forward to it, but then my tonsillectomy got scheduled for that day.

The surgery was very early in the morning. I was awake and alert again by early afternoon. The program would start at 5 pm. When my father joined my mother at the hospital, the doctor came into the room to tell them that, although everything went well, they liked to keep young kids overnight for observation. I was afraid of being in the hospital all night, but mostly disappointed that I would miss the first Mickey Mouse show. So I begged the doctor to let me go home. (The surgery did not prevent me from speaking on something so important to me.)

After checking me over and talking to my parents about home aftercare and watching for any signs that would require medical care, the doctor agreed to let me go home.

That reminds me of another bygone thing from long ago - ether as an anesthetic.