Can you see me now?

[susandennis]

I've had trouble getting adjusted to these new contacts.  In order to make my long distance vision better, I had to sacrifice some of my short distance vision.  And, my nice eye doctor really made me promise to change lenses twice a month and not make one set last forever.  So, my rule is, every payday, I slap in a new set. 

When you only wear one lens like I have for the past few years, it is real easy to keep straight.  But now I wear two and they are different from each other and I haven't quite cracked how you even can tell which one is which since the difference is only indicated by the tiniest numbers that I can barely read when I have them in and don't have a prayer of seeing while trying to figure out which one goes in which eye.

Why in the hell would the contact lens people make those numbers so tiny?  Do they not understand why you would even need their freakin' product????

I noticed all day that it was a bitch to see anything.  More of a fight than usual.  And it was pissing me off.  Finally about 2, I decided that at least the one - short distance eye was just wrong.  So I took it out and got out a net new one and put it in.  YES!  I checked the trash and I did not really even mix them up. I think I just got a bad lens.  I didn't really think that was possible but now I do.  And now I can see.  Whew.

Comments

[nanne.livejournal.com]

now I can see

You just gave me an Amazing Grace earworm.

[susandennis]

I have never heard that phrase before but I instantly knew what it meant and simultaneously got the hymn going in my own head (Judy Collins version - not to put too fine a point on it)!

[lilactime.livejournal.com]

Can you get these with a handling tint? Dunno if it's offered with disposables, but when I wore contacts, I had to have tinted ones otherwise I had a habit of destroying them. If so, it should be possible to get one eye or the other with a tint so that you can tell them apart.

[geordie.livejournal.com]

She could have one brown and one blue...

[susandennis]

I was thinking plaid for one and paisely for the other myself...

[susandennis]

probably can but i bought a year's worth of clear ones already... sigh.

[susandennis]

Well, yeah... only I did BLACK R on the right ones and RED L on the left ones. Hind sight is fab :) and way better than no sight at all.

My problem is not so much remembering but being totally too cheap to toss out perfectly functioning lenses. I asked her about those 30 day things and she would not even discuss them. Not for me I guess.

[pookfreak.livejournal.com]

Someone may have thought of this already but to keep the 2 apart - why not pick a neat unique different color and order that one for one eye (in the appropriate prescription ) and go with natural, normal, god(dess - or whatever) given color for the other eye.

Very easy to differentiate.

Just a thought - plus you'll have the added entertainment of watching people look at your 2 different colored eyes and look very very confused...something I can see you enjoying.