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An aside on the subject of contacts....
I have my new contacts. When I went in for the appointment to get my eyes checked, I got a new lens solution. My eye doctor recommended it strongly over what I'm using right now (which they originally recommended). What I'm using right now leaves chemicals on the lenses, which get put in my eyes. This stuff doesn't. Nonetheless, I cannot bring myself to use it. (And no, I don't really want anyone to try to convince me to, honestly.)
See...it has this special weird holder that has a stick in the middle. You open the frame on either side, set your lenses on the bulge, and close the frame (well, you'd do one lens at a time). Then you hold it over the "jar" that it sits in, pour the lens solution over the lenses till the jar fills to the given line, then put the lenses in and screw it shut. For the next six hours, you can't have your lenses, but after that you can, and they'll have no chemicals, just a saline rewetting solution on them.
Yeah. There is, indeed, a chemical reaction involved. The solution reacts with a solid something-or-other in the base of that jar, and in six hours (probably in less, since six hours is when they're sure it's done, and they must know that people are sometimes vague on time, but we'll call it six hours), it's reduced itself to saline.
Okay. I could say that I have a problem with waiting six hours, but I don't. If I don't get at least 7 hours of sleep, I can't function. And if the work phone wakes me in the middle of the night, I grab my glasses; contacts are a pain and I'm always hoping it'll be a short call. And I could say that I'm afraid the reaction won't complete because the stuff in the bottom will have run out, but really? No way. I'm sure they give you a new jar with every package you buy, and I'm sure it has more than enough in there to handle one bottle.
Nonetheless, I cannot bring myself to try it...because the liquid you're pouring over those lenses is hydrogen peroxide. I don't care if it's all gone, the thought of putting something in my eyes that, eight hours before, I left to soak in hydrogen peroxide? Augh! There are some things I just cannot cope with or imagine, and I'm sure every little irritation of my eyes for the first two hours would have me in a dither.
And my current solution works fine, thankyouverymuch. It's never so much as mildly irritated my eyes, despite her going on about that and mentioning that, since I have allergies, I might have more trouble with the chemicals than most.... She said my eyes looked great, there's no damage. Therefore, my current routine is working. I'm willing to replace it with a better one, but only if I can handle the thought of the new one. I can't handle the thought of this one very well.
See...it has this special weird holder that has a stick in the middle. You open the frame on either side, set your lenses on the bulge, and close the frame (well, you'd do one lens at a time). Then you hold it over the "jar" that it sits in, pour the lens solution over the lenses till the jar fills to the given line, then put the lenses in and screw it shut. For the next six hours, you can't have your lenses, but after that you can, and they'll have no chemicals, just a saline rewetting solution on them.
Yeah. There is, indeed, a chemical reaction involved. The solution reacts with a solid something-or-other in the base of that jar, and in six hours (probably in less, since six hours is when they're sure it's done, and they must know that people are sometimes vague on time, but we'll call it six hours), it's reduced itself to saline.
Okay. I could say that I have a problem with waiting six hours, but I don't. If I don't get at least 7 hours of sleep, I can't function. And if the work phone wakes me in the middle of the night, I grab my glasses; contacts are a pain and I'm always hoping it'll be a short call. And I could say that I'm afraid the reaction won't complete because the stuff in the bottom will have run out, but really? No way. I'm sure they give you a new jar with every package you buy, and I'm sure it has more than enough in there to handle one bottle.
Nonetheless, I cannot bring myself to try it...because the liquid you're pouring over those lenses is hydrogen peroxide. I don't care if it's all gone, the thought of putting something in my eyes that, eight hours before, I left to soak in hydrogen peroxide? Augh! There are some things I just cannot cope with or imagine, and I'm sure every little irritation of my eyes for the first two hours would have me in a dither.
And my current solution works fine, thankyouverymuch. It's never so much as mildly irritated my eyes, despite her going on about that and mentioning that, since I have allergies, I might have more trouble with the chemicals than most.... She said my eyes looked great, there's no damage. Therefore, my current routine is working. I'm willing to replace it with a better one, but only if I can handle the thought of the new one. I can't handle the thought of this one very well.
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