Cataract surgery went well.
Piece o' cake.
No pain at all, except the nurses trying to find a vein for the IV.
Drops made my eye deader than a three day old mackerel.
No feeling at all.
Just saw some bright lights.
Surgeon said it was 'perfect'.
Well, he would say that, right?
The worst part is the eye drops.
Every hour post op today for the antibiotic.
3 times a day for the other two.
The schedule tapers off over the next two weeks.
I have a clear plastic eye guard taped on.
Hope I don't dislodge in the night.
Had to keep it on all day.
Only sleep with it on for the next four nights.
Immediately post op vision was very blurred, but has been improving almost hourly since. Hoping it will be much better in the a.m.
I got the toric lens ($1500, not covered by Medicare) but it's supposed to correct astigmatism.
I was a bit apprehensive going in.
Fear of the unknown.
If you're planning to have this done, DON'T SWEAT IT!
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Absolutely NOTHING ingested after midnight last night.
Dang.
I survived, but barely.
You are just like my brother, a piece o' cake kind of guy! 
May follow up with some questions.
My ophthalmologist/surgeon is a very nice, young (hell, they all look young to me now), personable guy.
Just before they rolled me into the OR he came over, leaned down, and said "I like to say a short prayer before each operation. Do you mind?"
Although I'm happy with folks believing whatever they want as to religion, I'm an atheist.
This, however, was not the time to go into that.
"I don't mind.", I said.
He said a short prayer asking for success and a good outcome for the procedure I was about to undergo. IIRC it was non-denominational, just to his god, no mention of Jesus.
I was a bit touched. In a way, it was kind of sweet.
But at the same time thought "Damn, I could have done without that." I want to believe that this guy is good because of his training, and intelligence, and expertise, and skill, and not because he thinks he needs some divine assistance in what he's about to do.
To me.
So they roll my gurney into the OR.
I had heard that many surgeons like music in the OR.
My guy was no exception.
It was a Christian music radio station.
(As you might deduce, we have many here in Alabama.)
Half way through the operation one of the nurses started softly singing along with a hymn. Another said "We sing that in church." and joined in.
Oh boy.
I have no problem with 'believers'.
Miz t. is a devout Episcopalian/Catholic Lite (lapsed Catholic...birth control, child sexual molestation, etc.).
We agree to disagree.
We've been happily married for 43 years.
She prays for me.
Fine.
Just a question:
If you were a non-believer, how would you have felt?
Must prayers be vocalized to be heard?
What about silent prayer?
office visits. This is in SW Ohio, where strong evangelicals are not usually found among sophisticated, highly-educated professionals.
At the time, he was among the leading orthopedists in the area and his patients just acknowledged that his religiosity was just part of the big picture when one selected him as their physician.
Now, I am a life-long practicing Catholic who would rather have had my kind of prayers before knee replacement surgery, if there was going to be any kind of supplication to the Deity. Knowing the good doctor would be praying over me, I brought along a small vial of water from Lourdes to sprinkle on him, on me, or anywhere else as the situation might require. Well, the situation did not require use of the Lourdes water, the surgery was a success, and, luckily for me, there was no music in the operating room that I recall.