WE’RE UP early and no time for breakfast before we head to Vale of Leven hospital day surgery to check in for my cataract op.

There’s five folks ahead of me so I have to wait a good couple hours before I’m taken – but the nurses are good craic.

The procedure itself only takes about 20 minutes and whilst it was a bit freaky it was pain-free and not traumatic in any way. The doc and all the theatre folks were very pleasant and efficient.

I’m having a cup of coffee and a couple biscuits whilst getting my post-op care instruction when Margaret comes to collect me.

Back home I swallow some paracetamol, have something to eat then have a sleep.

I’ve to keep the plastic eye thing on ‘til tomorrow and start my rigid regime of drops. A little more complex than the usual to minimise the potential for a uveitis flare up.