Bracing appointement

"It won't be easy to get into the taxi with your rigid spine. You'll hit your head. But I'll be careful. I hope you have a safe journey home and a pain-free healing process. We'll see each other in 2 months for a check-up. In that time, please wear this corset consistently and as continuously as possible!"

"Yes, dear doctor, I get it. If I make a mistake now and take this thing off too early, the operation will have been in vain and I may be paralyzed."