Or just carry a copy of the surgeon's invoice - that'll remind you!
Andy
Actually Andy, although I have said in other posts that the surgery entailed no pain, that is without considering the doctor's fee. The invoice, I do carry with me, and this helped me on one occasion last month when I had to pick my wife up at the airport:
I entered the airport, walked through the metal detector towards the girl with the wand. She was a slim attractive girl in a skirt suit. As I passed through the metal detector, the alarm went off, deafeningly loud, and orange flashing lights lit up. An angry official in military uniform ran up, grabbed the wand from the girl and started waving it all over me, all the time glaring at me.
I was wondering, why was there such a reaction, just for one small metal implant. Was it the combined weight of the metal of my resurfacing and all the fillings in my teeth? Anyway, with all the commotion going on, I coolly took out my wallet to get my embossed credit card sized copy of my x-ray to show them. As I pulled it out, the surgeon's invoice that was still in my wallet fell on the floor. The wand girl bent down to pick it up and I looked at her. She had an appealing figure. The irate official was not interested in my x-ray at all, but when the wand girl handed him the invoice, the whole situation resolved. He realised that I had had surgery and signaled for the alarms to be stopped.
He handed me back the invoice with a smirking face, as if to say, 'who would be stupid enough to pay for that out of his own pocket.' I looked him in the eye sternly until his expression changed and he looked down at the floor. I know how to give a dirty look.
The wand girl was standing next to me, closer to me than I had realised. Her face was reassuring, and radiant. Her name plate on her badge on her lapel was clearly visible. I hurried passed her to arrivals to meet my long suffering, faithful and equally attractive wife. It did occur to me afterward why the alarms had gone off. It was my iron will.
I recommend a tattoo to remember you scar. Or maybe a picture of the device on your hip to remind you of that expensive piece of hardware you are carrying.
Use smiley faces to accentuate your sarcasm.