Sounds positive, hopefully you’ll recover quickly and painlessly.
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You’ll be fine. The eyedrops are a bit of a bind but persevere. The surgery experience is downright peculiar. Oddly, the enhanced colour for me was being able to distinguish between blacks. Made up of very dark brown or very dark blue, for example.
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Apparently I get to take the shield off tomorrow and can then wipe carefully around the nearby skin with sterile gauze and boiled water. The drops are supposed to start after that. I’m crossing my fingers (and hopefully not my eyes).
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That’s the ticket. Don’t poke it. Or move your head, suddenly. Do not reenact defeat of Tyson Fury.
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Procedure arranged for Thursday week
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Best wishes. Read the bumph and act accordingly. No powerlifting etc. Leave the heavy audiophile pressings in their sleeves for the duration.
Being admitted at 7.15 tomorrow
Procedure at 8.00
Mate picking me up to go home at 9.30
First of the day, hope the surgeon is awake!
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MiL’s operations were a revelation.
Good luck, but I really don’t think you need it.
Thanks, I am being a bit of a scaredy-cat about the whole thing.
I think it is the fact that it is the eyes that makes me nervous
Me too. I be like 
but 85yo MiL walked out same day and saw (pun intended) so much benefit that she had to have the other eye done to even things out.
Don’t forget to take a hip flask so the surgeon can have a straightener to stop his hands shaking. Best wishes, you’ll be fine.
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I love the smell of burning eyeball in the morning.
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Back home now.
All went smoothly
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Ay up
Had a bit of a health scare over last couple of weeks.
Had two funny turns in quick succession so went to see Dr and then a trip to hospital followed by being submitted to stroke ward and to be told I’ve had two TIA’s in quick succession. So CT scans, eye tests followed by being told I can’t drive for at least one month. Now waiting for MRI and other tests. Been put on clopidogrel a blood thinner and told I’ll be on it for the rest of my life. Got to take it easy for next few weeks while they do the tests and I’m told I’m at risk of having a proper stroke for next few weeks because I’ve had two TIA’s close together.
Whole thing likely linked to my diabetes
Bugger.
Old age is a twat
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Sorry to hear this Tim.
They do say, of course, that the trick with cardio-vascular incidents is to survive the first one. After that you’re in the hands of the doctors and they can do remarkable stuff once the issue is identified.
All the best !
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Someone in my office had a heart attack this morning - in a meeting with their manager. They were mid-late 40s.
Cue all the guys freaking out booking health check ups.
Meanwhile I’ve just eaten a packet of popcorn chicken for lunch, feel disgusting. Currently fighting the urge to wash it down with a coke…
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So sorry to hear this Tim.
Must have been quite a scare.
Hopefully they will find a way round this for you
Glad my tip helped. It is a peculiar sensation, innit?. Now do as you were told and get healed up.
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In what seems like the first bit of good news weve had in months, we have just been informed that Sarah’s Cancer hasn’t spread elsewhere 
Still the same dire prognosis as before, but it could have been even worse and isn’t yet, so we’ll take that as a win.
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So glad for you both - small wins soon mount up Mike.
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