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Just think how much experience they've had, since Fred had his op!

Muuuuch better now! :-D :-D :-D

Thanks Ann.

I tell myself it is only a bloody cataract, just like I told Fred!

You have to always give yourself the worst case scenario though don't you?

Always the worry, the imagining and total hissy fits are worse than the actual procedures. Just come on here for sympathy sharron. You may get it!! :-( <3

Do Genes do a laughing with sympathy emoji?

It only seems like yesterday that Fred was having to have a bowl in bed to vomit in at night because he was worried about a bit of surgery to remove some dodgy looking skin from his belly. That was palaver enough but for me, not him. Booking transport and escort transport twice because the hospital had not thought to have a hoist available to get him on the operating table.

Then he had his cataract operation which entailed a procedure upon his lower lid first which I had to talk him through and after which he came home in love with the black South African nurse who had held his hand through the operation.

The one I told to bugger off and slammed the phone down on when she rang up the next day to inquire of how he was because I thought it was a nuisance call. It seems I was not the first!

Well, now I have a date for my own cataract removal but that is a very different affair.

Fred's was a very simple, routine procedure carried on many times every day and nothing at all to worry about. You only needed to ask me and I would have re-assured you.

My own, however, is a very traumatic and stressful event involving a big circular saw, branding irons, probably a long stay in an iron lung and who knows which orifice they might use for access.

That is now and I still have six weeks in which to put the wind up myself big-time!