The doctor drew quite a detailed picture of what he’s going to do to me in January though. [...]
After over-sharing about my prostate earlier in the thread, that comment reminded me about the ophthalmologist at Moorfields who said about my chalazion procedure "it's perfectly straightforward, we'll invert your eyelid, attach a metal clamp to keep it where we want it, then stab the chalazion with a scalpel to remove the contents."
Yes, thanks, brilliant, I massively like the sound of that. (It's actually not so bad when it happens, if you push to the back of your mind words like "invert", "clamp", "stab", and "contents".)