Cataract done

So I had my cataract procedure done on my left eye yesterday and I got through it okay. Many thanks to my doctor, Teoh Hian Jin, from Bagan Specialist Centre in Butterworth. I must admit that before the procedure I was mighty anxious and nervous because he had warned me that my iris was rather small and that he might have to use some alternatives to get it to open wider. And true enough, despite several attempts to dilate the eye, he eventually had to use hooks.

I probably wasn’t the perfect patient either. Several times he had to remind me to relax and unclench my jaw and turn my head slightly towards him. In the end, I attempted some basic techniques to calm myself down. 

Maybe I should also explain why I chose to go to him in the first place. I discovered that he is also an Old Free but seven years my junior at Penang Free School, although he isn’t a member of The Old Frees’ Association. Still, that information was good enough for me. I would trust an Old Free any time and in this case my trust certainly wasn’t misplaced. Hian Jin did an exemplary job on me. Now I just have to wait for the world to look a little brighter through that eye!