Fuzzy (dfuzzy1) wrote, @ 2004-08-16 01:28:00

Current mood:	irritated
Current music:	Detective Conan - Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi Ni (13th ending)

*gouges his eyes out, king lear style*
I have always had profound respect for people wearing contacts. it takes guts to mess with a piece of glass that goes in your eye. I decided to stick with glasses because:




• they're hassle-free


• I don't participate in intense sports (with the exception of skiing, where I can't avoid wearing them)


• I always thought I looked cute with them (it's all about the geeky look)



having said that, I must make a confession. thanks to this, I have committed the cardinal sin of switching to contacts. I suspect that most of you are too lazy to RTFM (*cough cough KEVIN cough*), so I will explain.



1. I wear these special contacts (for at least 8 hours) while I sleep


2. contacts reshape my cornea


3. I have 20/20 vision in the daytime, without having to wear anything



the initial cost is around $1200 for both eyes, but afterwards it only costs as much as a pair of glasses every year. I went for it, because I was fine with wearing contacts while sleeping.

I somehow got the impression that this was a permanent treatment - that in a year or so, I can walk around 24/7 with no eyewear at all. hah. if I stop wearing these things alltogether, my old vision will come back in as little as 72 hours. I also underestimated the time it would take for me to learn how to work with contacts.

contacts are a bitch.

the first time at the optometrist was a fluke. it took me hours afterwards to put them on and take them off again. it didn't help that my parents were shouting at me about learning the "tricks" to this. my mom kept making frustrated expressions because she can do all this in a matter of seconds. right now, it probably takes me around 15-20 minutes for me to put them in. and that's just "putting them in". they keep going to the bottom or the side of my eye, so I have to nudge them into place. WHICH EVENTUALLY HURTS LIKE HELL. well, maybe not that extreme. but it's not a pleasant feeling. at one point, the bottom part of my eyelid was dark red, like it was bleeding.

taking them off is a bit easier. I learned that you have to get a mirror and stare yourself down while you place the plunger right on the center of your eye. if you don't keep looking, you may make contact (no pun intended), but you won't be able to get the lens out. it also helps to keep telling yourself that you won't hurt your eye with the plunger because you're just using it on the lens. then again, that's if you don't miss completely and hit the white part.

right now, my right eye is slightly uncomfortable. I can't really do anything about it, though. if I try messing with my eye, I might move the lens. and that's the last thing I want to happen. the experience is almost as miserable as when I got a stomach virus in bali (or maybe it was from taiwan).

no, wait. there's nothing that compares to that.

in any case, the reshaping thing seems to be working. I just got these on saturday, and if I try wearing glasses everything's both sharp and blurry at the same time (because the prescription was too strong). hopefully I'll get used to all this by the end of the week, since I go back to UT this saturday.

right now: these contacts are a pain in the ASS
in the future (hopefully): these contacts are the best thing since sliced bread

in other news, I have most of my stuff sorted out for my dorm room. and I have discovered another song to listen to. my sister was playing it on winamp, and I just had to figure out what it was. it has a nice, unique upbeat style to it. although I don't see why detective conan needs 15 opening and ending songs. look how far naruto is at. and I think they only have 3. detective conan doesn't even get anywhere, from what my sister tell me (since she watches it). this cool detective suddenly gets shrunk to a little kid by some mysterious antagonist, and he's trying to figure out who did it and how to reverse the process. at least, that was the premise in the beginning. IT NEVER PROGRESSES. occasionally, there will be some case that offers a few clues. but for the most part, it's all about random cases that he always manages to solve. I'm not frustrated about the "always manages to solve" part (after reading rand's philosophy on art), but about the story not getting anywhere.

then again, there's galaxy angel, which is now on its fourth season. and I keep up with that. so I can't really complain.
and then there's di gi charat.
but 15 op/ed songs. either that's a lot of episodes/random cases or the producers were just being indulgent.

also, thanks to the anime instrumentality project's release of rizelmine, I was forced to back up some stuff to the external hard drive. after reformatting this computer countless times and having 20 gigs to work with earlier this summer. I need to get me some cd-r's when I get back on campus.

	nyyankee2004 2004-08-16 13:23 (link)
	haha poor fuzzy. it took me bout two years, but i can take my wonderful ortho-k contacts out without using that scary plunger. however, you will not believe how dependent you become on these mothers. I had like an eye infection last year so i couldnt put them on ... it was like a living hell. Have fun with them. Stan (Reply to this) (Thread)

dfuzzy1 2004-08-16 18:39 (link)

while I was at the optometrist, there were some other people learning how to use contacts for the first time. I heard about the non-plunger method, but I didn't really pay attention since it was directed to another kid who was having trouble. I think it involved pinching the corner of your eye and blinking. already, I can't go back to glasses. the vision in my right eye is changing, but nothing's happening in the left one so far. if I do get sick or get an eye infection, I have a few days before my vision goes to hell. but when that happens... actually, if it does go back, my glasses should work again. bad ass. ~Fuzzy (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mogs 2004-08-31 00:48 (link)
	Your vision... is already... in hell... *imp leaps out at you* (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)