Really? REALLY?

Here's a hypothetical situation for your learned evaluation.

Suppose you were a certifiably smart person, gifted, in fact, who had just come out from under the surgical knife. And as your companion, minding the store of your well-being, you had an adult entrusted with hundreds of thousands of dollars of electrical machinery as a profession.

Now suppose you were instructed by your knife-wielder to apply ice to two parts of the surgical area simultaneously, at a rate of 15 minutes on, 15 minutes off. And that a concerned care-giver made you four mini ice packs, with the explanation that you could put two on for 15 minutes, then put them in the freezer, and for the next 15-minute application, get the two fresh ice packs. And so on. The companion could do the legwork.

Do you not suppose that, between the gifted individual and the high-dollar employee, you could follow such directions?

Or would the concerned care-giver return ninety minutes later to find two bags of water in the freezer, and two mini ice packs laying on the end table? With the explanation that the first two melted after using them for ninety minutes, so the second two had to be put into service.

And furthermore, if the companion sits by you and watches TV for ninety minutes, is he really taking care of you as promised? Especially when the concerned caregiver returns and must fetch water and clear a milkshake cup and dish up mashed potatoes and gravy from a take-out container?

Any thoughts? Hypothetically?