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2 hours isn't much. Doing the paperwork, eye drops, waiting for the pupil to get big, perhaps a local narcotic if they have to put some optics on your eye for testing the retina... 30 minutes and you won't have seen a doc yet, 15 minutes with the doc for some testing, waiting room to have the eye getting normal again, after an hour a talk with the doc again for 5 minutes. And that is if there aren't problems. If you live countryside with no special hospital for eye surgery, there is always the risk that an emergency appears and you sit and wait with your widened and paralysed eye for an hour or more. They may need to do drops again and it will take hours for your pupil to get back to normal size again. The doc closes and you walk half blind on the street. Police thinks you are drunk ( you are not) or under drugs (which you are, but not the ones police thinks) ... So 2 hours may sound long, but it can be much worse

No financing. Had to pay the difference up front before they would operate. Evidently, they got stiffed once too often. Them: "Pay us." Patient: "No, what are you going to do, take my eye back?"

Braai => Barbacoa (a manner of cooking meats in the Caribbean by the Taino people and the origin of the word barbecue)

I work in a medium sized office. Each department this week is having a "snack day" where they bring in all kind of goodies, like cupcakes, cookies, brownies, fudge... some people have made cheese balls and meatballs and today there was even a giant pot of sausage gravy and biscuits (southern U.S. biscuits, not cookies). I have resisted ALL OF IT so far, for the sake of staying true to the low-carb lifestyle I've been on for the last 10 months. Hardest week of my life. And it's only Tuesday. But... I and some of my work friends have organized a cookie day, for the Friday before Christmas. That event I AM contributing to, and I'm working really hard to be steadfast until that date. It really helps to have a reward at the end. I'm bringing peanut butter cookies. And of course Christmas week it will probably be no holds barred. I have most of the week off work, and there is a local business that sells the most wonderful peanut butter fudge this time of year. I will be enjoying that.