To say the surgery hurt more than I thought would be a vast understatement... The ride there took forever... But I got lucky Dr Freedman has people from all over the world coming to see her... Even her husband is a renowned cardiologist.... She tied a slipknot in the strabismus muscle of my left eye... So that when I woke up she could get my input as to whether she needed to shorten it or lengthen it... She tied a slipknot in a muscle 1/10th the size of a human hair... Amazing... Anyway that whole "awake" thing was what hurt... Until she kept pouring a numbing agent in my eye... Afterwards though it hurt pretty badly. I got home and took some of my pain meds and it feels okay now.