Upside down Pickle in a Jar: The BIG Day!! part one

So as I have a newborn here next to me, I'm going to have to split Finn's birth story into parts.
Here's part one:

My surgery was scheduled for 9am.
We woke and I showered in this special body wash for surgery, and I got dressed in my shirt from Amy ha ha.
I was extremely nervous and a bit upset from the whole unexpected c-section situation, but I calmed down enough to be ok for awhile. I had never had surgery, not even minor. The absolute worst pain I've ever experienced was probably a bee sting or stomach ache. So the fact that I was going to have surgery AND be awake for it, completely freaked me out.
I wanted my Mom and Dad and Avery to go to the hospital with Ben and I, so we met them at their apartment and snagged some last minute pictures:

We headed to the hospital and when I signed in, it only took about 10 minutes for someone to come and get me and Ben and they took us to Labor and Delivery to wait. My case had been pushed back because of some emergencies, so we waited even longer.

Finally after a few hours of waiting, the surgery team came and introduced themselves.

Ben had the great opportunity to handpick some of the team. Of course I had my regular Dr. And we were fortunate enough to have the anesthesiologist we wanted, and Ben asked his friends Heather and Grant to be the nurse and scrub tech. I felt so comfortable knowing some of these people prior to my pregnancy. It helped me calm down a lot.

The team wheeled me into the operating room a little before 12. Immediately the spinal was put into my back, which by the way, was the coolest thing I had ever experienced, medically speaking. As soon as it started to spread, which I could feel, by the way, I was layed down, Ben was let into the room and I could feel the pressure of the c-section starting.

I layed there while Ben talked to me the whole time about things he loved about the pregnancy. I'm gonna go ahead and say that this was about the point when I realized I was AWAKE during surgery and I said, "Hey, you guys!"

"What's that?" the doctor said while still cutting my belly

"This is great! I don't feel shit!"

I remember everyone laughing.

The next thing I heard was the doctor saying "Oh my! This is a big boy!"

Then there was pressure on my tummy, someone said he was here, Ben looked around the sheet, and then I heard it:

the most amazing sound I have ever heard: Finn's first scream.

Everything after that was pretty much a blur until Ben brought Finn to me. I hadn't even noticed Ben wasn't next to me. I only know what he was doing from the pictures that a nurse took: