80% of people in their 70s suffer from cataracts in Japan, and I am one of them. I had cataract surgery this Tuesday at an eye clinic. The surgery was completed in a single day and took only 20 minutes. During the operation, as usual, my blood pressure rose. The surgery was done without anesthesia, so I could clearly hear what the doctor and nurses were saying. My normal blood pressure is between 130 and 140, but during the surgery, it up to 200. Whenever it reached 200, the doctor told me, “Relax.” I was strapped in with a drop injection in my right arm and a blood pressure band on my left, completely fixed. Then, the doctor said to me “Don’t blink.” I said to the doctor “It’s hard to say that. Easier said than done! “ I couldn’t control my eyelids. The next day, I went back to the clinic for a follow-up checkup. When the nurse saw me, she said laughing, “You are the first patient to say jokes during surgery!”