Soooo glad you're on the mend!!!

Slight hijack alert: I had a little laugh too at the "passing gas" portion of your surgery. I had a colonoscopy a couple of years ago, and they also wouldn't let me loose until I made wind. They wouldn't let me (and other patients) get out of bed until the chuckle-juice (anesthetic) had left our system. Try to imagine half a dozen whacked-out patients desperately grunting and groaning trying (and succeeding) to make the doctors happy. Like a symphony of tubas....

Hope you're back on your bike soon!

SHerry.