Thanks for the welcome! I'll see how the surgery went when they take the vest off tomorrow - the surgeon was Dr. Zinsser (in Richmond, VA) and it looks like he knows his stuff.
I'm conflicted about my sister - she thinks I like "boy stuff" meaning dinosaurs and outer space, which is good for me, I guess, but I feel like I should find her some books about famous scientists who're women or something so she doesn't go to school thinking science is just for boys