Tis done, shipmates.
OK, enough of the pirate talk. You’ll have to imagine the Captain Jack Sparrow accessories.
Surgery was quick, briefly unpleasant when the local anaesthetic went in but mostly painless, if a little bloody. Post-op, it is painful: I feel as if I’ve been smacked in the eye, with a bonus serving of pea-gravel under my eyelid. The patch comes off later today, after which I’ll be sporting a black eye.
Thanks to everyone who offered good wishes and crossed their fingers. It appears the outcome is going to be positive.
I kind of wish I’d gone out and bought the pirate hat and stuffed parrot after all…
talltalesfromchiconia 
So sorry you had to go through surgery on your eye. I hope you will be feeling better very soon.
It’s sore now, but will be much better soon, I think. Can’t wait to see how the black eye turns out!
Ouch!! You would have looked fabulous with your patch and a pirate hat too. Hope it heals well and you can return to normal life and sewing soon. This is just the kind of time when I would be saying thank heavens for audio books – and settling onto the sofa for a good relaxing day or two. (After walking the dog of course.)
The patch is off now, and the eye is, well, colourful! It’s still very blurry and gritty, but hopefully that will get better every day. I’m over having a dodgy eye after a month of problems… I made a cake yesterday in anticipation of enforced idleness. Time to go and make inroads, I feel!
What, no quilted patch? What kind of quilting pirate are you?! Hope all is well now 😘
I was *sorely* tempted to get a pirate patch, perhaps not quilted, but at least with a skull and crossbones on it. Sorry to disappoint with this boring white ‘official’ job…
😫 (There should be an emoji smiley face with a pirate patch!)
I agree totally! How else does one communicate the sound Ahhhrrr!
It’s done ✅… thank goodness.. now to heal and get back to normal 😍🤩 love & hugs to you always. Don’t overwork the good eye 👁
Or at least, getting back to as normal as I ever will 😉 It feels sore, but the sensation of pressure is gone, which is great.
It will be sore as u have had surgery but it will heal xxx
The black eye is developing nicely!
Oh dear ..😔
Definitely piratical!
Don’t overdo it
I’ll try not to.
Is John home with u for a few days ?
He’s on night shift just now, so home most of the day.
Ok good … someone there to stop u from overdoing it
Oh, you think so…?
Rest xx
I should sleep well tonight, I didn’t sleep well before fretting about what was going to happen today.
Plus the pain killers should help u as well
Not a lot of pain any more, more the irritation and nasty gritty feeling in that eye. Hopefully sleeping will fix that.
Yes a good nights sleep always helps
🙂
So glad all went well. Take it easy.
Will try. Not sure I’ll succeed, though!
Ew! Poor you. It sounds as if it was all rather unpleasant to me but you are very stoical. Did I miss you telling us what was actually wrong with your eye?
No, I didn’t go into detail. I had a large chalazion, or Meibohmian cyst on the eyelid which was pressing on my eyeball and was exceptionally red and swollen and hard. It had to be excised from underneath the eyelid. Won’t go into more detail. Even I find it squirmy.
‘chalazion’ and ‘meibohmian’ sound much nicer words than the thing they describe. Thank goodness it’s all done now. 🦜
I know, especial chalazion, such a pretty word. It sounds like a piece of jewellery 🙂
hopefully the worst is over
The bits involving sharp and pointy things in close proximity to my eye are over, thankfully, but it’ll take a few days to get rid of the black eye.
Wishing quick healing for you
Thank you, I do normally heal fast, so should be OK soon.
I am glad you are on the mend! And pirate talk away my dear! I know I would be!
It doesn’t feel quite right wearing glasses… Maybe when the black eye is fully fledged and I can look properly disreputable 😉
I always panic when a needle comes right at me in the eye, so I UNDERSTAND that first shot! I am glad they have been able to do something for your eye! I (as will you and everyone who reads) am hoping for a very speedy and successful recovery!
The surgeon was sensible: I had numbing drops in my eye first so I couldn’t see anything coming, and he was very good with the needle, painful but not excruciating. It’s already a lot better today, though the black eye is interesting, to say the least!
Yay for numbing drops…
Amen to that…
Ooh, that doesn’t sound nice at all, hope you’re soon feeling better. I used to work occasionally in the eye theatre and always had to look away for the anaesthetic bit!!
It wasn’t exactly nice, and yes, needles and eyes are always a bit squirmy, but I’d recommend the surgeon any time – and he was chatting away about his training in Manchester all through the procedure!
It seems nothing can be healed without incurring some degree of pain first. 😦 Glad it’s over. Here’s to a speedy and complete recovery!
I thiink that’s probably quite true, so I feel I got off rather lightly! Already much improved 🙂
I was thinking of you yesterday but thought there was no point messaging you given the events of the day. But today… without even doing so I’m happy to see and hear all is well. Another chapter… my time as a pirate… in your book 🐦
If you’d texted yesterday I probably wouldn’t have been able to read it! Luckily the laptop lets me enlarge infinitely so peering around the eyepatch at the screen wasn’t too hard. Patch off, technicolour eye, improved vision: all good. Parrot accessory no longer required 😉
Somehow I had missed the fact that this was going to happen… anyway, I’m so pleased that you are likely to be on the mend and I hope the pain is short-lived.
The nasty pain was short lived, the irritation will go on a bit longer (about a week), but is already improving.
Ach, my spine twingles just seeing your picture. I have to quell a near-panic attack just to get a glaucoma test at the eye doctor. I can’t imagine undergoing surgery. Brave you! You don’t need a pirate hat, you already rule.
I wasn’t especially brave about this one; mostly, I’m fairly sanguine about yet another surgery, but this one had me sleepless and sweating. Still, it’s done, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I feared, and while it needs a bit of post-operative care and the black eye is a bit emphatic, I’m pretty happy overall with progress.
thank goodness it is over and hope it heals quickly. Do we get to see the black eye? Think a real parrot would be an authentic addition.
I may have to post the black eye, it’s getting to be quite colourful. The parrot *would* be authentic; getting the little devil to sit still for a photo would be tricky!
So glad everything went according to plan. As for the black eye you need a good cover story of having to tackle a mountain gorilla or crocodile….Get well soon. xx
Or maybe I went three rounds with the Boxing Kangaroo (the mascot of the Australian Olympic Team). On the whole, though, eye surgery is a bit easier to explain…!
The worst is over and it only get better from here. 🙂
True. Hopefully it’ll fix it permanently 🙂
Speedy recovery!
Working on it! It does seem to be healing up fast.
Oh, Kate, that looks painful. I’m so glad you’re on the other side of this and that the outcome is good. I hope you get some rest.
You know, it really wasn’t that bad, and seems to be healing pretty quickly. Somehow, a rest doesn’t seem to have happened, but I’d feel a bit of a fraud if it had…
I’ve read once that eyes heal quickly. Mike had eye surgery several years ago and within days it seemed like a non-event. I hope the same will be true for you.
It’s already feeling and looking almost normal, so I think you’re right.