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So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"

But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:

And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)

Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.

And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize

Sigue, pues, el sendero, legión, cuya proeza un grito de amor santo del labio nos arranca; un pensamiento grande se anida en la cabeza, del corazón gozoso se ahuyenta la tristeza y el ideal esplende sobre la cumbre blanca. Sigue tu marcha; has visto que el polvo deleznable de los desiertos, oasis sobre la arena finge; en pos de tu destino camina imperturbable, y no esquivando la áspera pregunta formidable "acepta, sin temores, el reto de la esfinge". ¿La duda? ¿El mal? . . . ¡Qué importa! Tú, como siempre hasta alcanzar la meta del misterioso viaje; emerge luminosa la cumbre en lontananza y en cada pensamiento noble, brilla un miraje, y en cada noble pecho palpita una esperanza.