I guessimate that 80% of the calls to our landline are this bullshit. But my wife is more that adamant that we will keep one. It cannot even be discussed kind of adamant. So I hang up on a lot of poor souls in India trying to sell duct cleaning. That is when it isn't the Mastercard Alerts. Or Taxation Canada gunning for me.
Keep the phone....just discreetly unplug it from the jack/turn the ringer off..
Tobedetermined what kind of surgery do you have to get man? Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. Get better man!