This past week I have been testing out a pair of contacts for the first time ever. I have always been curious about contacts and as soon as my vision took a turn for the worse I requested contacts from my optometrist. My optometrist however, requested that I wear my glasses as needed, no contacts.
What ever happened to ‘the customer is always right’? Answer: it doesn’t apply when said retailer is a doctor charging you an obscene amount of money for reusing the same vision card on all of their patients. A story for another time, but don’t you think after taking the Snellen vision test twice a year for a number of years I will remember the 20/20 line reads: D E F P O T E C?
Anyways, it has now been a few years with glasses on and off, more on lately than not. So I’m finally trying those contacts.
I have a number of friends and family who wear contacts and I’ve heard them complain about the pain of having to put them in and take them out and travel with them, etc. I’ve watched my sister in particular put hers in countless times with barely any effort at all. Sometimes it’s like she’s still asleep, lifting her eyelid in minimal cooperation with the task at hand.
So, I’m standing in front of my bathroom mirror, freshly washed fingers and contacts in hand. The not blinking part at the crucial moment of insertion was a little difficult. But after a few days I’ve gotten better at it. Somehow though, removing them was proving to be more difficult. I recalled there should be some gentle pinching involved of the contacts between your index finger and thumb. Still, trying this was not yielding a high success rate.
Then I had the brilliant idea to watch someone do it right then and there. Thank you YouTube! [Actually thank you Google Search that returns top videos by search subject.] So after watching this short and bland video, I learned straight away that the crucial detail is to look up so you pinch at the bottom edge of the lens, and not in the center directly over your pupil. I implemented my newest discovery and voila, the contacts are out in no time flat!
Goodnight all, goodnight moon.
