Hope it all works out well
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All the best wishes from Down Under
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I think for all of us the possibility of losing our sight would be terrifying. I have to say you appear to be remarkably positive and stoical about what must be a very traumatic time. I take my hat off to you.
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I bet Ginge is taking great delight in hiding shit around the house.
Cheers everyone and to @Nottarf-Krap s comment in particular, have you ever seen Starship Troopers? The bug aliens get a leg fucked off and theyâre still very effective. Iâm a bit like that 
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God help us all. Good to hear itâs positive. Weird having stuff done to you eyes isnât it?
I gave myself a big pat on the back just for getting past this line. Everyone has their thing and mine is eyes, at uni a mate torpedoed a potato swirl at me (aiming for my gaping gob) and bullseyed me right in the iris - I was scared to open my eye for about 20 minutes in case it wasnât there anymore. Also, after heavy nights out my housemate at uni used to scoop mascara goop out from under her bottom eyelid with her fingernails in front of me just to watch me squirm 
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Upvoted for your housemate - brilliant sadistic sense of humour.
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She was very fit and quickly forgiven.
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My son had one of those things that you squeeze and it shoots a little plastic disk out.
He did that near me and hit me straight in the eye, cut my contact lens in half and left a scar on my eye!! My optician said the contact lens probbaly stopped any worse damage to my eye.
Feel for you @Pap mate but just think how (much) cool(er) youâll look with an eye patch!!
I was told if I want to drive legally I should wear an eye patch. My dad suggested to get me a stripey top, a hook and pirate hat for driving.
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I am saying nothingâŚ
I think you should go for it Intiniki, eye patches are all the rage.
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To the surprise of many, not least myself, I have today reached my three score years and ten. I am in West Wales for a few days with my son and daughter, to mark this momentous occasion they are taking the old man for lunch followed this evening by a few pints of good Welsh ale. Cheers everybody.
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When you get to your age I think itâs more appropriate to say âwell doneâ rather than happy birthday 
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Welcome to the club mate. Keep taking the medsâŚyouâll be fine. 
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Ah yes, Mrs BTripz and I reached our 20 years of matrimonial bliss the other day.
Same as the Earl and Countess of Wessex who decided to hijack our wedding day
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Many congrats N-K.
If you search hard enough you can always find a positive to getting old. I think it was Kingsley amis who spoke of his sheer joy when he reached seventy and realised that his libido was finally starting to give up on him. âit was like being chained to an idiot for fifty yearsâ. 
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Well that nudges up the average age on the site yet another notchâŚ
Happy Birthday fella.
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