i had both eyes done back in 2003 and 2004 one eye each time of couurse.developed suddenly over 4 weeks reall scary at the time and i had to pay for the first one as the wait time was over a year.even though it had developed so fast i was almost blind within 6 weeks.
both ops were a breeze as you say and the 2 weeks of drops were pretty easy. afterwards i only need readers now after havng glasses all the time from 5.