Thanks for your reply and encouragement....

If offered, I definitely will go with Robotic surgery.

If the VA hospital doesn't have the equipment, chances are the adjacent U of W research facility does. It's a huge complex, and is recognized as being one of the best and most advanced medical centers in existence.

Here's a photo, not of myself, but my favorite traveling machine.....

I can go out to my hangar on a winter day here in Rockford in early morning to shovel snow from the ramp. By mid-afternoon I'm in Phoenix, walking around in a flannel shirt.

To simplify legal procedures in the event of my death, a few years ago I transferred titles to my older son Alan. He's also an "Airplane Nut." Until I'm in full recovery, 2 planes are in his hangars out in Nebraska. One being an experimental "BD-4" which I built and test flew almost 20 years ago. Another plane, a 1946 Cessna 140, is in a friend's hangar out at Stellar Airpark in Chandler, Arizona awaiting restoration.
https://www.flightaware.com/photos/view/8954410-7dbde11323c6c2ac88ce26a1bceac3027851e774