# Hello Ophthalmic Surgeon **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2011, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960 "2011-06-10T10:41:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/1 "2011-06-10T10:41:26Z")
So on Monday, I have to visit the above surgeon to have (surprisingly) surgery on an eye. I assure you it wasn’t from reading [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=611846). It is for some microscopic cysts growing near a tear duct which can’r be ruled out as being a sun cancer. Basically, the surgeon wants to nail them before they can get into the duct. I have avoided thinking about it until today when I got the account from the anaethetist before the operation. I am wondering if he considers I could shed this mortal coil and wants his dibbs up front. If I do croak, can I leave my Charter member title to **Handsome Harry** who I am sure is quite envious of the status? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/2 "2011-06-10T17:02:21Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > … > > I have avoided thinking about it until today when I got the account from the anaethetist before the operation. I am wondering if he considers I could shed this mortal coil and wants his dibbs up front… I suggest you do NOT prepay. If you’ve paid up front, they don’t really have much of an incentive to keep you alive, now, do they??? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/3 "2011-06-10T20:55:04Z")
Apropos of nothing, I just read that Final Destination 5 is going to feature a [death](http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=17501) by eye surgery. If you do survive, use the [eye drops](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6Zyb7zOeU) afterward. (video) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/4 "2011-06-11T03:20:37Z")
Thanks **Mama Zappa** and **Tom Tildrum**. I feel so good now I may just go and run a warm bath… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/5 "2011-06-12T01:50:59Z")
Uh-oh, he hasn’t posted in nearly 24 hours… More seriously - good luck Monday. Will you be under general anesthesia? Is it one or both eyes? ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/6 "2011-06-12T02:16:23Z")
Monday? As in tomorrow? Her Majesty’s Official Birthday Public Holiday? An Ophthalmologist is working on a public holiday? \ Good luck with the surgery regardless, **Cicero**. I certainly hope you didn’t pay the anaesthetist in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/7 "2011-06-12T02:53:48Z")
Still here. Monday isn’t a public holiday in Perth. It’s only one eye thank Heavens. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/8 "2011-06-12T13:53:35Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Still here. Monday isn’t a public holiday in Perth. > > It’s only one eye thank Heavens. Gotta love the Dope. Fancy having to find out on a US-based message board that Her Maj’s birthday isn’t a day off for Sandgropers. Hope it goes well. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/9 "2011-06-12T13:59:38Z")
We had Foundation Day last week. Everything is weird in West Australia. It was a mild panic today when I realised I didn’t have a time that I needed to be at the hospital. Fortunately that has now been resolved. (Don’t ask how I stuffed that up ☹ ) ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/10 "2011-06-12T22:44:30Z")
When I am not thinking fondly of Her Maj today as one of her newest subjects, I shall be thinking of you. Take it easy. Suggest you work back up to oogling women. Maybe start with some very tame 1950s still pinup girls and go from there. Give your eye a chance to heal properly. 😉 Hope it goes well. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/11 "2011-06-14T05:18:03Z")
Well I survived. I now have to rescind all my new wills - **hermette** thought she was getting my Bay City Roller collection. All went well- the cells weren’t cancerous. Just feels like my eye is full of grit. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/12 "2011-06-14T05:43:59Z")
Good news. What have you got against **hermette**? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/13 "2011-06-14T07:21:46Z")
That’s what she wants to know 🙂 I thought being Scottish she may enjoy that sort of music. Instead she asked for the three legged cat. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-ophthalmic-surgeon/584960/14 "2011-06-14T11:47:24Z")
I’m glad to hear it went well. 🆒