Good luck.
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Best of luck Jim.
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Good luck Jim, here’s mud in your eye 
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All the best jim
No doubt you will be a model pupil
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All the best Jim.
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ATB Bruv !
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I guess it is, ahem, see you on the other side?
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Hope it went well, now you can be Eagle Eyes
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That’s the hard part over 
. Now you just have to be a patient patient.
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eyes sorted and Mounjaro, you’ll be able to see your cock when you go for a piss now 
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Looking good.
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Just returned back home from the (24 hour later) follow up examination.
The op yesterday went pretty much as expected, a deeply unpleasant experience, but not painful. The worst aspect was the very bright light shining a few inches from your eye which every fibre of your being wants to look away from, but can’t. The sucking/gurgling noises when the cataracts ware being hoovered out was fairly stomach turning too.
The two operations, (left eye, then right) were totally separate - different staff, (apart from the surgeon) equipment, gowns (including mine), fluid containers etc. Nothing from the first op is used in the second.
My left eye op was very quick and simple but the right took quite a bit longer - the surgeon seemed to have trouble getting the new lens into position. Coming out of the building afterwards into bright sunlight was excruciating, even with polarised sunglasses. I had my eyes closed all the way back home. They suggested getting plenty of sleep so had a little bit of dinner then went to bed at about 7.30.
When I woke this morning, my left eye felt far more comfortable than my right, which felt sore and gritty. The vision in my left eye was far better too. Only slight blurring, but a complete fog on the right.
At the 24hr post op examination this morning, the optometrist said that my left eye was recovering well but the right has a corneal oedema. He said this is fairy common and will disapate over the next week or so.
He gave me drops for the oedema, (so that’s three lots of drops, several times a day) and asked me to come back on Saturday for a further examination.
Lease excuse any typos in this for obvious reasons 
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This ^^^.
The place I went did right eyes in the morning and lefts in the afternoon. While the surgeon was having her lunch the techs moved all the equipment racks from one side of the patient’s chair to the other.
I wonder if left-handed and right-handed surgeons prefer doing opposite sides of the patient ?
I found the drops to be a pain. But far better than things getting sticky or failing to heal cleanly or, heaven forbid, getting infected.
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The good news is that I can read my phone and managed to type the above without glasses, which is great - it bodes well……yay! 
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The best thing about being glasses free is buying decent (sun)glasses, so much better than either tinted prescription or photochromatic.
I went a bit OTT and got a pair of Ray-Ban Chromance for driving and out and about and a pair of Oakleys for golf!
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I didn’t notice whether she was left or right handed but she stood in the same position for both ops - directly behind and centrallly in line with my head, so she was working upside down relative to my face.
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Best post op thing for me was noticing that different blacks derived either from very dark brown, or very dark blue.
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Had second post-op appointment this morning. Optometrist was very pleased - swelling in right eye has reduced greatly. Exceeded all of his expectations in the usual sight tests. Next follow-up in one month
I can have my phone set to the small font setting and read it perfectly (which would have been impossible before last Tuesday without my glasses)
It’s difficult to appreciate how much the sepia tint cataracts are adding to your vision affects everything, until it is removed - bang! Everything is so vivid.
Marvelous 
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Good, innit 
?
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