On the souvenir hardware topic:
I told my NS that I want to get his autograph on my films. Of course, he and everyone else thinks I'm nuts. I wanted to scan it in into a jpeg, get a photo print, and place it next to a picture of me standing in front of Stonehenge.
I liked the artististic juxtaposition of these stones still standing eons after the Druids erected them placed next to my hardware-fused-neck. To me, that's funny; to anyone else, that's sick.
But I wasn't "normal" before the surgery, anyway. Why start now?
Feel better, all!