ShadowX1337 had the exact same experience as me. i had the operation on both toes and the needle for the numbing hurt like hell! after that my toe didnt feel anything for the rest of the day.
I was building a good steel mill until the game told me that making steel here in america was getting too expensive and they shut down the steel mill, leading to untold hundreds of adventures from the sons of my laid-off workers. all of these adventures of course had happy endings and were documented carefully in the "historical fiction - 1850-1950" section of every library ever