Ahoy, Jim Lad!
May. 14th, 2007 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcShame it isn't International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Following surgery, I have the eyepatch.
Although my natural mode in such situations is panic, I worked on staying calm in the operating theatre ("I can't feel anything, since I need to keep my eye closed I can't see anything, therefore nothing's happening. Relax, listen to the music, and remember to breathe"). I thought I'd done pretty well, until I tried to let go of the squeezy stress ball I'd been given, and discovered it was stuck to my hand...
Although my natural mode in such situations is panic, I worked on staying calm in the operating theatre ("I can't feel anything, since I need to keep my eye closed I can't see anything, therefore nothing's happening. Relax, listen to the music, and remember to breathe"). I thought I'd done pretty well, until I tried to let go of the squeezy stress ball I'd been given, and discovered it was stuck to my hand...
