Everyone says it's a piece of cake, and you've verified that.
Oddly enough, it all the post-op drops that give me pause, as I anticipate the same surgery in the near future.

Check in again with us, please, as you progress post-op.

Absolutely NOTHING ingested after midnight last night.
Dang.
I survived, but barely.

before the surgery. One good thing about that was my blood pressure went down because smoking causes my blood pressure to spike.

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as much oxygen in my lungs as possible before surgery.

and the difference in my vision was the difference in a HD tv and analog! You'll be amazed! Good luck with your recovery!

You are just like my brother, a piece o' cake kind of guy!

May follow up with some questions.

as I experienced everything that you did, and there was also a problem with the IV as my veins roll away from needles. And that plastic eye guard was a real pain. I would wake up with it hanging off my face in the middle of the night. Fortunately, I didn't have to wear it during the day.

Very hard to peel off.
No problem last night.
Only have to wear it 3 more nights.

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?

and probably would have felt as you did! Will see how it goes for me. Don't think I'll ask my doc, whom I have not yet selected, whether s/he will do the same! MD is not AL, after all! and IF there's music, I hope its MY station, http://www.weta.org/listen-live

Must prayers be vocalized to be heard?
What about silent prayer?

but as I've never been a student of it, I may be wrong.

Something about praying in the closet?

OK, MATTHEW said it, Matthew 6:6.

New International Version
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

New Living Translation
But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.

English Standard Version
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

http://biblehub.com/matthew/6-6.htm

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.