I have been wrestling with reading glasses for the last couple of years. It’s a real pain in the behonkus. I can’t read directions in the car without them or even idenify an incoming cell phone call, but then again, I can’t wear my reading glasses and sunglasses at the same time either. Grocery shopping, clothes shopping, etc. — better have those reading glasses but it’s awkward walking around in magnifiers. So…I went for my first eye exam in about four years. The eyes are good, except for needing those magnifiers. I decided I wanted to try contact lens.
Talk about teaching an old dog new tricks. Wow, they know me intimately at Lens Crafters now. The first night I couldn’t get it out of my right eye, so I had to drive over the next morning and have the Lens Crafters folks get it out. I let my eyes rest that day. The next morning I got myself set up…and spent the next hour putting in two contacts. I had a headache all day — I think I’d traumatized myself and my eyes. The following day I got the right in — with the contact the wrong way — three times. I just resorted to glasses that day. Next day I went back for a lesson in how to put them in. Seems the key is to do it BEFORE you put any moisturizer on your face. Okay. Then I had an issue with my right eye — well, I’ll spare you the details but it turns out it wasn’t an eye infection — just the eye unhappy with all the trauma but the doctor told me to check the contact for any small tears. No need, when I started to put them in the next morning, it was obviously torn almost in half. That meant another trip there to pick up another pair. Saturday and yesterday went well…until I couldn’t get the left eye out last night.
Let me just go on record as saying that I hate everyone, especially small children, who can pop their contacts in and out at will.:-[ I am also determined to master this. In the meantime, I am undoing years of Oil of Olay Regenerist cream as I tug bags I could use at the grocery store beneath my eyes in an attempt to get these suckers in and out.
And thus concludes my ongoing saga of contact lens wear…or the pathetic attempt. I suppose outside of just wanting to whine about it, I need encouragement that I too will one day manage to pop these in and out without it being an ordeal and without tugging ten years worth of lines around my eyes.:-S
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lots of hugs, Jennifer. I can only imagine.
Morning Jennifer. It will get easier. I wore contacts for years. And trust me it really does get easier. I want to try and go back to wearing them again. Maybe in the next few months I will do that. I had to stop wearing them a few years ago because of an infection in my eye. I would love to get them back then I wouldnt have to worry about my kids breaking my glasses again, lol!
Have a great day! (*)
Jennifer, I am cheering for your succuess! I need reading glasses too. But, I would not put a contact in my eye for a million dollars. Just not an option for me. I also do not need glasses to drive or when I walk around – only when I read. So, on the weekend when we all go out, my husband drives and I know he will pay for everything, so I leave my purse at home. Then, we go out for lunch and I can’t read the menu. Still, it’s easier not to lug my purse around!
It gets easier. I promise.
I’ve worn my contacts for *mumble, mumble* years, ever since I was 14. I remember the first couple weeks were terrible but after that I don’t think I could function without mine. I’m almost legally blind and I hate wearing glasses because they mess with my peripheral vision. The doctors have threatened to take mine away because my prescription is so bad the thickness of the lens itself deprives my eye of oxygen. I told them no frickin’ way. They’re going to have to pry them out of my hands before I’ll give them up. You’re going to love them…as soon as you get used to them. 
Sounds like quite the ordeal, way to stick to it!! I would have probably given up by now. I’ve never had any eye problems, so I can’t imagine having to stick something in my eye. Intentionally. My husband wears glasses all the time, and tried contacts several years ago. In the beginning he could not get them in. And half the time, when he did it was the wrong way. He finally got the hang of it and was getting them in and out in seconds. Then we moved to AZ and his allergies kicked up and he said his contacts felt like sandpaper. So of course he stopped wearing them. And even though we’re back in CA now … he hasn’t mentioned wanting to go back to contacts.
Good luck to you!!
It gets better!!! And isn’t it so awesome to see without the weight of glasses on your nose? I love that part, especially in the summer. I wore glasses from 6th grade on, and only got contacts after my senior year of high school (my graduation present to myself) and I’ll never forget that feeling of vision without glasses. Magical! But yeah… the equipment comes with all its own foibles. Hang in there. And be careful not to touch those lenses the same day you cut onions or peppers… or if you’ve put the Olay on before hand!! Your eyes are very unforgiving to any hint of chemical in your skin. Ouchy. Good luck!