The day after, yay.

Thanks for all the goodwill coming at me!

Yesterday was a bit more eventful than I'd hoped. The lens took a long time to get installed, so it was more like 45 minutes thsn the expected 20. He had cautioned me that this could happen. Anyway he succeeded, and that part went well. Squeamish Readers, Skip The Next Bit. 

However I had a reaction  maybe to the anaesthesia, maybe the fasting, maybe dehydration, which went on a while. 

After they were pretty sure I wasn't going to throw up any more, they let me leave. Except I had to decorate the sidewalk right after I got in the car.. then waves all afternoon gradually decreasingly till by evening I was okay. But I did get relief for a while from the shoulder pain, a drastic remedy if you ask me.

Gary dropped by to check, and promptly dashed home to find me a nausea remedy he uses! Mike was administering sips of iced tea and tiny bits of the sandwich he'd provided for my lunch , following the recovery nurse's instructions. Between them I had great tlc.

Mike finally got away late afternoon when we were sure all was fine. Later Gary came by to see if I had supper, but I was still working, as wait staff say, on lunch.

I may live alone but yesterday I had resident family care. It was great. And I had a great night's sleep after I sorted out pillows so I could be propped up.

So finally I got to try out my new eyesight. Blurry for a while, then much better. I think it's going to work. The only trick is that my glasses show total confusion out of one lens and moderate correction out of the other. I can function distance without them, but reading not so much. This will be interesting until the other eye is done. But it's what I was told to expect. So there's that.

This morning off to another eye doc in a different office for first followup. Then peace to enjoy my new confused view of the world. Everything looks brighter and cleaner from one eye, interesting.  And I'm following the juggling of eyedrops, tricky when reading's an issue. 

I wonder if I should get reading pince nez, hanging them around my neck, or have I been seeing too many old movies. Maybe a lorgnette, that would be fun.

Enough medical stuff for now, because I found a great old black and white movie, very funny, all the usual Brit comedy suspects, just silly fun. Hapless jewel thieves, hapless business owner and super capable secretary. 

The two principals were husband and wife in real life and regular acting partners too.

And look here, to see who got one line and a thirty second appearance

Yes, the divine Geraldine.

So that's us around here today. None of my cooking was sampled, in fact handsome Son seemed pretty uninterested in heating some for lunch today, when we get home. 

I'm betting he's already got his lunch arranged, probably on his way to the shore, the weather being lovely and he getting to the end of his week's vacation which has been severely interrupted by his aged Mom's needs.

Happy day everyone! All's well.