Had 2 successful insertions and extractions today, boo ya! Have not joined the Special Forces; just trying out soft contact lenses for the weekend. @fallingrock swears by them, I swore *at* them earlier. Seems OK now.
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I do like the opthalmologist that David found – Dr. Vile in Arlington Heights. He was very patient and sympathetic to my frustration when first trying to insert and then extract the lenses, and pointed out that those of us with small eye openings (see his picture on his website) will struggle more at first with the larger diameter lenses. And advised me to literally walk away the first time I attempted to get the contacts out by myself, relax, look at things, and come back. It wasn’t quite “snicker-snack GLEE” when I came back, but they did come out on the first or second attempt. Put them back in easily, took them back out… eventually, and put them back in one more time for the drive home. I’m set up for monovision at the moment, with distance vision for the right eye (which is apparently the dominant eye… very bossy) and close vision for the left eye. I’ve had this with my last two hard contacts prescriptions and so I’m already mostly adapted to the phenomenon of one eye or the other taking precedence. It’s a bit odd driving, at first, but quickly became much more normal feeling as I went.
One nice thing: I’ll have to find my sunglasses, I get to wear them again!
We’re supposed to see a show with the rest of David’s family later today at the Drury Lane Oakbrook – a show we’ve seen elsewhere, unfortunately. I’m sure it’ll be very enjoyable, but it’s not a show I’d have chosen to see in a different setting. Now, if it was “Nunsense” or something where there’s a lot of of comedy and “business” that can change with different productions, that’d be another matter. But this is “Pump Boys and Dinettes,” one of those 50’s pastiche shows that frankly is really popular with the demographic at suburban musical theaters like DLO or the Marriott Lincolnshire. Dinner tonight with the family; this is our annual “transferred Hanukkah” outing, like when we went to see “Tommy Guns Garage” in May 2004. I’ll be interested to see if I can see… maybe I’d better take a bag with my glasses and the contact stuff in case I have to do an emergency extraction at intermission.
My vision has always been poor, and as I’ve gotten older, I have a “squint wrinkle” right between my eyes, on the right side. This is probably due to the fact that my right eye, though dominant, is quite a bit worse than my left eye. In school, both were bad enough that even sitting in the front row in grade school, I had to squint to make out stuff written on the chalkboard. After getting glasses, I sat in the back where I was less likely to be called on (since I was generally daydreaming most of the time anyway).
So: we’ll see. If I get better at insertions and extractions over the weekend, I’ll fix it up with Dr. Vile to get the whole “disposable soft lenses” deal with the packs of lenses, each of which is worn for 2 weeks, then pitched. The true test will also be at work, because if I can’t see to work, I’d have to justify just wearing them on the weekends and on vacation.