exactly as much fun as a poke in the eye

[geekchick]

I decided the other day that I was going to attempt wearing my contacts more often. I found where I'd stashed them and had a moment of panic where I thought that one of them had ripped. (My contacts are not particularly cheap to replace since I need toric lenses, and I can't swing an exam and new lenses just at the moment.) Luckily I was mistaken, so I bought new cleaning solution, cleaned and soaked them, and decided that today I'd try to wear them for a few hours. I'd forgotten how damn hard it is for me to get contacts in; not only do I have to get used to sticking my fingers in my eyes again, but I have to make sure that my lenses are in correctly (they have to go in a specific way) which takes several minutes of holding the contacts up to the light and trying to find the mark that indicates that I'm putting them in correctly. Do you know how hard it is to find a little tiny mark on a lens when it's pretty much guaranteed that you can't see because hey, no vision correction yet? The first one is always a bitch, the second one sort of involves squinting through the eye that has the other lens in already.

So anyway, half an hour and several obscenities later I have my contacts in. It takes a little while to get used to focusing, but I'm surprised I can see as well as I can. This prescription is fairly old and I'm sure I need to get it updated, but I think actually I can see better with these than I can with my newer glasses. Well, at a distance anyway. I'm having a bit of a hard time focusing on things closer to me right now, like computer screens. I keep reaching up out of habit to push my glasses up and not finding anything there, which is taking some getting used to. "You look funny without your glasses on" was a fine note to head out on too. ;-P It is kind of odd to be able to see my eyes though.

I should see if we're actually going out to see a movie; if not, I'm going to curl up with the stack of books I came home from McKay's with and I should probably take the contacts out. Any bets on how long that is gonna take? (Actually, taking them out has always been the easier part, even if thinking too carefully about the process kind of makes me shudder.)

Comments

[zuggy9.livejournal.com]

I tried to wear contacts once and I couldn't handle them. Putting them on involved a lot of obscenity and anger. The problem was that my body would start to fight them off as though they were an infection. The lens would get all milky and my eyes would get increasingly irritated. I actually had to go to an opthamoligst and he recommended that I give them up.

Yep, I'm pretty much a glassses wearer from here on, and I don't trust eye surgery.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't imagine sticking my fingers into my eyes to wear contacts. So it's glasses for me.

Nicola

[geekchick]

I think you look wonderful in glasses anyway, for whatever that's worth. =)

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[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

Hey, hon -- I responded to your last two emails, but hadn't seen anything back from you. Did you get my messages? I hope we're still on for this weekend, and I'm looking forward to catching up with you. Email me at home or at work, either one; I'll check back here for a response, too.