I’m well used to contacts after wearing them for about twenty years, so the slight discomfort after the operation was nothing to me: I’m well used to the discomfort of a dud contact lens and this was in no way on a par with that. I had pain killers in the cupboard, but did not even feel the need to use them.

I was told that I’d had a good result, as I obtained 20-20 vision in one eye when I had the check up to have the “bandage lens” removed after 4 days, something which I was told was very unusual with LASEK. I must admit that I was too sceptical about LASIK to go for that option: maybe it’s just me, but I know I’d have nightmares for ever more about that flap which is cut in the cornea under LASEK, having read about how it has been shown that it can be reopened after a few years.

Optical Express were very professional and friendly and I couldn’t fault them. However, I feel no novelty whatsoever in being able to see without correction because I had 20:20 vision until I was 23 years ago and regard this as a return to normal.