Were you watching it during the proceedure or on a video replay later? If you could take this live, I have gained even more respect for your "Semper Fi". Wow.
I was watching it REAL TIME -- as it was being performed, for both procedures. It a show one shouldn't miss.
I had heard all the horror stories of guys after their procedures -- swearing they would never do it again.. But after having experienced it myself - they had to have been real sissies or had an extremely low tolerance for pain. They too had the anesthesia - and still claimed pain.
Personally, I believe they worried themselves into pain by the expectation of pain. Focus on what's going on and learn from the experience..
That being said -- even MORE interesting but involving more anxiety - was watching my own angioplasty while the Doctor was searching for the cause of my heart attack and the damage it did to my heart. That is a a procedure where they insert the camera probe into an artery in your groin -- and then you have to turn, twist, raise arms, lean from side to side to assist the doctor in getting the camera where he wants it.. That damned procedure took more than an hour and I was exhausted at the conclusion -- but alive. At least I learned that my problem would not require a stent, surgery, pace maker or anything more that a change of life style, diet and more exercise.
The spookiest part was when the Doctor asked me to sign a release stating that I was informed that 1% of patients DIE from the damned procedure.. I asked him how he was doing with the odds and he just smiled -- that was reassuring. He also said a much larger percentage die after they refuse to sign the release authorizing the procedure... THAT was the selling point.
Semper Fi