Wednesday 16 March, 2005

Thoughts about eye

Yesterday it hit home that I'm not in England anymore.

eye.jpgSounds weird, considering that we've been here for six months now - but in some ways I've still been relying on my roots back in Old Blighty... I recently saw the bottom of my stock of contact lenses - when I left I bought spare lenses for quite a few months so I wouldn't immediately have to go buy some more.

So on Monday I booked an appointment with my closest optometrist - Urban Eyes on Davie - and saw Dr. Parmar yesterday. She was young and pretty, and very efficient and friendly. I'm now trying out trying out the new Night & Day 30-day lenses that you can wear, well night and day for 30 days - I 'm trying them out for a week and then go back for a check-up. Chu had tried these kind of lenses before and had been happy, so I wanted to give them a go too. My eyes were healthy and bright, but in both eyes the sight had worsened, on left eye even quite considerably. Damn - I had gotten quite used to no change happening, my eyesight has been pretty much the same for years. Maybe someday when I've gathered enough courage I'll go for a laser surgery.

I've been wearing the lenses for about 17 hours now, and they feel good. It is slightly weird - and I felt naughty - going to bed with them, and I woke up several times thinking that something was wrong. My sight without lenses or glasses is very poor, and I'm used to the night time being black and blurry - but now I could see quite clearly, and it wasn't as nearly as black as it used to be. In the morning the eyes felt ok, a bit dry but after couple of rigorous blinks it was ok. If they really work like this, I'll be more than happy to swap my daily disposables for these.

Posted by kolibri at 16 March 14:46, 2005
Comments
# 1 - Rel Fexive (on March 17, 2005 01:08 AM):

I've never considered having contact lenses. Don't know why. Just seems like more hassle. If I could decide who was the best to go to, I'd investigate the laser surgery option immediately though.


# 2 - kolibri [TypeKey Profile Page] (on March 17, 2005 08:31 AM):

In many ways I find that contact lenses are more natural than glasses, dispite sticking something to your eye. Because once they are on, you can see very clearly - they are good with sports, they are good for leaning on things (you know how you can't properly lean your cheek on something with glasses), just feels... more normal. Especially the daily disposables I used to use, you really can't feel them in your eyes at all.


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