Dec, 2009, I sorta fell off a mountain during a blizzard and wound up in an ICU for 2 weeks.
At that time, my profession was mountain man, so I had the obligatory beard.
That was a problem for the hospital staff. In the way of tubes and masks, etc...
So finally, they shaved me.
Lots of cussing, and many disposable razors later, I was bleeding like a pig, and I looked like a bad wanted poster.
I told 'em just to cut it back with sissors. But no, they had to 'clean me up'.
/johnny