My dad had eye surgery yesterday. No, it wasn’t ‘cosmetic’ – it was to reduce vision problems his eyelids were actually creating. They didn’t put him ‘under’ and to add insult to injury, the local anasthetic wore off part way through the procedure, so he just endured the pain. Personally, I would have puked and passed out. I’m nowhere near as tough as my father – my guess is that my mother somehow got involved in the reproductive process.