Different hands.

3 months of a 'baked bean growing near the knuckle', hours of waiting (having risen at 6am, something I disagree with stongly), huge amounts of being told what to do with no back-talk from some frighteningly old nurses, 10 minutes in an operating theatre discussing domestic politics, and this is what I have to show for it...a rather cartoonish bandage to cover the 2 stitches sealing the cut, and a hand that looks rather well tanned from the copious amounts of iodine used.