I would add that the recovery is about a day, usually they will do one eye, and wait 10 days or two weeks to do the other, easiest surgery I've ever had.
My experience was very similar to yours @Sherema69 and my surgery was about 9 or 10 years ago.
I must admit I have a horror of someone doing anything to my eyes, so I was just petrified. The morning I went in for the procedure, my BP was way up, (after taking my meds), however, the Opthalmologist used a topical gel as a local anesthetic. I had envisaged a hypodermic needle going into my eye.
Between the bright lights and my head being held in place somehow, the whole operation was over before I realized it. I have an implant in each eye, and the only glitch was that some stitches were required because of the shape of my eye. Apparently the incision did not close of its own accord, so the stitches were needed. I had hoped they were the dissolving type, but no. A week later, she removed them, and again it was all over before I had time to be concerned.
There may well have been improvements in the intervening years, but even 9 or 10 years ago it was, as @Sherema69 said, pretty routine.