Being taught how to poke myself in the eye
February 15th, 2007 | by fish |Recently I’ve been playing with the idea of getting contacts.
Well I say playing. I decided to give it a go a couple of weeks ago after an eye test when they said that my prescription was exactly the same as before. How boring! So, I thought, what the hell – why not try contacts. I have quite good looking eyes (so I’ve been told), and wearing glasses makes me look a bit too Harry Potter esque.
So after giving me yet another eye test (for some reason?) and giving me a static shock in the eye (thanks to what ever bright spark thought up nylon carpet tiles) they ordered in some trial lenses for me! Apparently one of my eyes is a weird shape and as such I need to have monthly lenses. Fine, I was probably going to have monthlies anyway since dailies are stupidly expensive.
So, a week or so later I went back again so I could try out said lenses.
After being taught how you’re supposed to put the things in, I sat down in front of a mirror for a good twenty minutes or so poking myself in the eye – and completely failing to get the things in place. This wasn’t terribly pleasant. Soon my eyes were bloodshot. Poking yourself in the eye is something that your body knows you shouldn’t be doing. I had no idea that my eyelid was so strong!
Eventually, the optomertrist had to put them in for me. That was very odd. Having someone else poke you in the eye and it not actually hurting isn’t something that happens to you every day. But once I got them on it was quite amazing!
At first if felt like I had an eyelash in my eye – a lot. Underneath my eye was sore from poking it so much. But once I got used to it, it was really cool! I did an eye test afterwards and my vision was actually better than “perfect vision”! Super-vision! w00t!
So now I’ve had to book another (free) appointment where they will attempt to teach me how to poke myself in the eye properly. I really hope I get used to it because it’s really awesome!
