 Instead of general anesthesia, which is typically used for this surgery, doctors gave Nicholas a single spinal anesthesia shot, similar to what's used during a C-section. The entire procedure was performed in less than two hours. Yeah. It's got to be weird. I woke up during one of my knee surgeries, right in the middle of it, and I asked the doc, what are you doing? And he's like, oh, God. And then he said, gingers, redheads.