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How Did I Come To Look Like This?
It’s not what you think
I have not been in a fight with a world-champion boxer.
(I think I would look a lot worse if I had been. 😀)
In fact, I have not been in any form of fisticuffs with anyone. It is how I looked two hours after my eye surgery for a cataract removal on Monday.
Now before anyone who has never had this operation thinks it must have been a strenuous battle for the surgeon to remove this cataract from my eye, let me tell you it is not the case.
Those who have had cataracts removed will also know this is not the case. In fact, the operation was reasonably simple, although I found it slightly surreal. Lying on my back with a dazzling light in my eyes and seeing ghostly images of instruments probing my eye, while listening to voices of the surgeon and his medical staff quietly going about the business of painlessly removing the cataract from my eye.
So, why does it look like I have been in a fight?
Well, the white tape on my face is to keep the plastic shield defending my right eye in place. It is not covering up scars or bruising. (I have to wear that every night until next Monday. 😆)
Obviously, my right eye does look a bit sore, but that can only be expected, considering what it had been through.
Why my left eye looks like it does, I have no idea. Perhaps it came out in sympathy for it partner on the right.
Or perhaps this is how I am going to look from now on.
Who knows? 😂
Thanks for reading.
