Thanks again. I just spoke with my contact at Doctor's office. At this time, they can only say everything is ok, but if I hear any poping sounds, give them a call. This whole accident is just a coincidence: slipped on ice falling to my left wearing leather sole shoes (the cause). Arriving for party, busy driveway on Christmas Day. I agree with you about not being in a position to be put under any time soon. It was quite an ordeal for out patient surgery: arrive at hospital at 5:30 am, my wife was asked to leave the pre op area at about 7:25 am so they could get started with administering the regional block to numb my left arm for least the next 14 hours, I was told to turn my head to the right. I saw a sort of grayish instrumentation type laptop screen; a small rectangular probe was applied to the left side of my neck. I went under about that time and next thing I know, they were trying to wake me up in the second recovery area at 3:00 pm; telling me to cough it out from my lungs so I could go home which I did shortly after.