.eight..seve-." Lets start," said Dr Millard who as the senior surgeon took charge.Dr Fielding swabbed the area to be operated on with antiseptic."Sca...pel."The scalpel was firmly placed into Dr Millard's right hand. "We aregoing to make the first incision here. We need to keep as much tissue aspossible so we will cut downwards to free from the metal strut. Be readywith the suture as we might have some blood loss. Let's hope it isn'ttoo much as we have no suction."The operation was difficult due. He could have gone back anytime he had known that, it wasn't that he felt divided loyalties, at the time he had been in many ways just as hurt as Natalie, not physically but emotionally. Hank saw Rav and his family as his champion's, they had become his family when Rav married Nat, they had helped him in so many ways to learn that he could be himself without fear or derision, he had not expected them to have human failings too, they had seemed so perfect to him that when he did see those. I don't think of myself as being 'buff', but I have to be in fairly good shape for the things I do in my job. I don't feel that I have to prove anything to anybody, and I am sick and tired of constantly being stood up to by small guys that feel they have something to prove. You were nodding as I said that, and told me that you felt the same way - women would scratch you when you were trying to help them on the wind surfer, and tell you to keep away from their man. "As if I would be interested. In fact, I wouldn't have been on this cruise ship if not for my sister.Kara, my sister, gave me this cruise as a gift. This was a singles cruise and I was supposed to be having the time of my life meeting women and enjoying the ocean. I never would have told my sister, but I felt nothing but boredom and emptiness as the boat put off to sea. Women, with their forced smiles, unnaturally loud laughter, and seeking eyes seemed pathetic, and I couldn't be around them for very long. So, that is the.