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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
My Life Has Reached A New Level of Pathetic
Get this, I've had glasses for about 4 years now. Nothing serious, just to drive, movie theaters, other things far away but it was getting so annoying because I liked how I could see with them but didn't care for wearing them. For example, not necessary but more enjoyable to watch TV with them on so things were crisp and sharp. I went to my trusty eye doctor last Monday and instead of getting new glasses, I asked him to try the contact lenses that you can wear day and night and only take out one day a week. Two-and-a-half hours later I finally left his office after passing his test of being able to put them both in myself and take at least one out and put it in myself. Two-and-a-half hours! If his assistant said to me "don't blink" one more time I was was going to take his VHS tutorial/propaganda from Bausch&Lomb and throw it threw the window. Anyways, I got them in and enjoyed them for a solid week until it was time to take them out. I tried got frustrated, tried again, got frustrated, and then called upon the trusty Jenna to help. She tried to coach me through and was very patient until she got mad, washed her hands in only that way nurses can, and said "look at me" and plucked them right out of both eyes. That brings us to this morning when I tried to put them back in and was late to work in the process. Decided that I just needed to cool down so took them to work to try later. All morning everybody kept commenting on how awful I looked, especially my eyes. Yeah, your eyes would look like this too if you just had spent 45 minutes prodding and poking them not to mention not wearing make-up so you could put the stupid contacts in without getting mascara all over them. So I had cooled down and figured I could do it so I went into the bathroom at work to try. Turns out I hadn't cooled down enough and still couldn't do it. And that's when my boss walked in and said, "Are you still trying to get those in? Give them to me and bend down!" So I obeyed but then she said "you are too tall go sit on that toilet and look at the ground" She then proceeded to pull my eyelid open and put my contact in. Then said, "now you try this one while I pee but if you don't have it in by the time I'm done, I'm doing that one too." Well sure enough I didn't have it in. It may not have been so bad if I wasn't sitting in the same stall that she had just come out off (I don't know why it seemed worse the 2nd time) and if 2 people hadn't walked in while this whole process was going on. But I felt like a 6 year old. And the office just loved the laughs. But at least they are in for another week. Jenna? What are you doing next Wednesday?
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7 comments:
Wow...good thing you got the ones you only have to take out once a week! I took me forever at first too. I was in 7th grade and I think that I was late to school for two weeks solid. Just pull a Pohm and never take them out...or don't.
Hypnotism my friend, self-hypnotism is the answer. That's how I was finally able to put mine in.
I don't wear contacts, but I understand your loathing them. I've seen a number of people get highly frustrated with them. Plus, I've never trusted how they just sit on your eye and stay there. One day that thing is just going to float backwards and be in limbo between your brain and skull.
HAHAHAH!!! I've missed your blogs.
It'll get better (so I hear...) but thanks for the entertaining story. Deb has been off the radar for a while!
Before my eye appointment I had been practicing touching my eye. Gross, I know. But when the doctor gave me the lens I put it straight in. Just pull down your eyelid with your middle finger and watch the tip of your index finger all the way until it touches your eye. Go ahead, practice.
I'm scared I'll have to get contacts soon, because I'm too vain to wear glasses. Maybe by then you can be the one shoving them in my eye, and I'll be on the toilet.
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