I have to ask: didn’t you guys start to hurt, too? I mean, if I see someone slam their hand in a door, my hand sort of aches too (sympathy pains?) I can only imagine a group of guys waddling around with pain and only one having the true right to waddle. LOL!
Sympathy pains? a little, it was a kind of shared tribal experience for us guys, the humor and ribbing was of good nature and shared discomfort and sympathy for him, and respect for him taking on the surgery at his age.