The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

… white sticks.

… braille books.

… speech to text.

… permanent passenger seat.

… more looking like a shit pirate

… life of darkness.

At least for now … because while things aren’t completely sorted – there were a lot more ‘complications’ than anyone expected, and we still have to wait some weeks before we can see what the reality of the situation is – in terms of the actual procedure, my operation was a success.

As I said, it is still very early days.
And sure, I will be on medication for the rest of my life.
Plus there were some very, very scary moments along the way.
Including needing two emergency operations after the first op.
A full Grey’s Anatomy, ‘life in the balance’ season-end drama moment.
And yes, I will have to go in for regular check-ups for a fucking age.
Plus they still don’t know what caused it so it could all go to shit any day.

But in terms of dealing with the ‘burning oil rig’ pressure, it fucking worked … and I will be eternally grateful to the doctor, nurses, specialists and surgeons who made that possible.

As I said, right now my vision isn’t great, I can just see shapes and colours and I find typing really hard [you have no idea how big the letters on my screen have to be for me to be able to see, let alone type anything] … but given I had no vision before, it’s brilliant.

I’ll even be allowed to drive again! [Thanks to my other eye, not this one. Yet]

So with that and that fact some of the Metallica gang came to me when they were here last week – the end of the year is looking a fuck-of-a-lot brighter than it has for quite a while. Especially the last 6 weeks or so which were an absolute fucking perfect storm shitshow. Not just for the eye, but for seemingly every bit of karma I was due for the past 55 years – hahaha.

So I really want to say a big thank you to everyone who reached out, checked in and sent love.

Given I have been in isolation – both in terms of calls, emails and social media … it was nice to come back to love.

But most of all, I need to thank my surgeons and medical science … because contrary to what certain government administrations like to suggest, they’re amazing and it’s incredible and I don’t just owe my ability to still see the World around me, to it, I also owe my life.

And yet despite that, it still won’t improve my blog writing skills.

But it will allow me to keep writing my rubbish and I couldn’t be happier.

While I’ve had it much better than most, 2025 has been a pretty challenging year … this is a nice way to head into the end of it. All I need now is to win this years Fuck Off And Pie – which is next week – and it may even end up in credit.

Oh who am I kidding.