“So here’s the thing…

Ok, so I got contact lenses today. VERY WEIRD! They’re not uncomfortable per se,  but I feel like I’m REALLY aware of them in my eyes. I was only “allowed” to wear them for 3 hours today, 5 tomorrow and so forth until next saturday when the doc checks them again. Haven’t decided what I’m going to do…stay with glasses or stick with these.

The problem is that my prescription changed, AGAIN! Man, I’m going blind by the year. The right eye stayed the same, thankfully, but the left went from 2.75 to 3.00. Which in school is great; not so much in the vision world. So that means when I buy boxes of contacts (praise God, these are disposable unlike the pieces of glass they gave me 5 yrs ago that I of course quit wearing after a week), I’ll have to get 2 different boxes. Stinks. More money. Plus, when I take them out, I have to put my glasses on so as to not kill myself walking around the living room or pet a pillow instead of Chloe or… you get the point.  However, my glasses are my old prescription, and as any glass-wearing person can attest to, there’s nothing worse than trying to readjust from one prescript to another. Can we say “headache” people?

The up side was buying a pair of sunglasses. Haven’t done that in years and years. They looked pretty cool, too, if I do say so myself. It will also be nice to not be constantly trying to clean those “where-the-heck-did-I-get-that” smudges that never seem to really disappear.

I think I’m just scared that I might lose one up in my eyelid, or get dirt in my eye and have to take them out but can’t cause I don’t have enough solution with me or some other crazy scenario. Hopefully the cost won’t be too great.

You know who really needs contacts, though? Jason. He has the most beautiful eyes and no one gets to see them. He actually has blue eyes, unlike my grey ones. And there are the cutest little freckles around the very outside corners of his eyes. He tried contacts a long time ago, but he never seems to make it more than 2 or 3 days before they’re just driving him crazy, and he gives up on them. They make his eyes tired and dry and blood-shot. But that was a long time ago, and I was telling him today what the doctor told me. There are a million types of contact lenses out there, you just need to find the right ones…breathable, fitted to the eye better, etc. etc.  Plus, only giving it 3 days is probably not the most fair judge of things. I was doing pretty well in them. During dinner when we were engaged in a conversation I didn’t even notice them in my eyes, but when we left for a bookstore, I noticed them the whole drive there. Which means it’s probably more psychological. Getting used to contacts vs glasses PLUS a new prescription at the same time is going to be a feat I’m sure. I’ll keep you posted.