The cruelest irony of all...

[icepixie]

...is when a person who wears glasses needs to repair part of his or her set of spectacles.

(I have somehow lost the screw that holds in one of the nosepads on my current pair. I attempted to substitute a screw from my older pair--using only one, squinted eye, because the astigmatism in my left eye makes it basically useless for close work without my glasses--but apparently it's a different size. Now I am using duct tape until I can make it somewhere that sells such items, hopefully tomorrow after work at the journal.)

WOE.

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[icepixie]

One of the many reasons I do not wear contacts, right there. (The big one is that the one time I tried, they fell out of my eyes. No, really. It was horrible. Oh, and my astigmatism is such that I would never be able to see as well with contacts as I can with glasses, which is sad.)

I hope you've got your specs fixed by now!

I do! And I got them fixed for free, even! I will definitely be patronizing that store if I am ever in need of more intensive optometry work while living in this town.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

the one time I tried, they fell out of my eyes.

What? FELL out? It's not possible for soft lenses to fall out. They could maybe wrinkle up a bit, or otherwise feel uncomfortable and maybe come unstuck if they weren't the right size, but otherwise...this is not possible. Gas perm lenses, on the other hand, can definitely pop out, though even then, you don't usually feel it. you just notice that suddenly something went very blurry and oh shit you better find your lens before it finds the bottom of someone's shoe, or worse...

Also, I've got astigmatism, and I do just fine with contacts. Really.

The hydrogen peroxide solution wouldn't have been insurmountable--I just would have had to rinse the heck out of the lenses before putting them anywhere near my eye. Not ideal, but not impossible, either.

[icepixie]

What? FELL out? It's not possible for soft lenses to fall out.

Au contraire. These were soft lenses, and they very definitely fell out onto the table at the eye doctor's about thirty seconds after I finally got the damn things in. (It had taken me an hour to put them in, so perhaps my eyes were too dry by that point for them to adhere.) The assistant who was helping me basically said, "Um. Come back tomorrow and try again." To which I replied, "I think I'll just stick with the glasses."

Also, I've got astigmatism, and I do just fine with contacts. Really.

Well, the doctor said it wouldn't be terribly unclear, just that it wouldn't be as clear as my glasses. I got the impression it might've worked out to only 20/20, as opposed to the 20/15 I enjoy with my glasses.