Hi Carol, just to reassure you as well it's a painless op and over within about 15 - 20 mins. You will have a patch over your eye from the op time until the following morning. It can take a few days for your eye to settle down afterwards and vision to return to normal. I had to wear the patch each night for about 2 weeks I think it was. This is to make sure nothing on the bed linen could come into contact with the eye.Thank you all, quite looking forward to the operation, at least I will be able to see out of that eye again. Other eye is starting to cloud up so will probably need that one seeing to as well.