Comments on: Through a Contact Lens Darkly

By: mom

mom — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:28:12 +0000

You know i just got new glasses and i never had a clue how old i was looking. So all i’m saying is “seeing well is not all its cracked up to be”

By: robert

robert — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:31:23 +0000

debbie, where are you? hope all is well!

By: Kick Shoe Kooy

Kick Shoe Kooy — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:56:08 +0000

I feel your pain. I revolted at one point and wore glasses too.

By: frstlymil

frstlymil — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:58:38 +0000

I had a college professor who wore hard contact lenses, and apparently they would dry out about 2 times during the lecture of the day. Her method of fixing this was to continue lecturing without taking a break, she’d take them out and put them in her mouth – leave them there a few seconds, take them back out and put them in her eye – all while lecturing quite lucidly on music theory. As a result, I have never worn lenses – except the glasses kind. I just can’t. I was traumatized.

By: woodstock

woodstock — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:33:59 +0000

My SO had lasik a few years ago and hasn’t regretted it for a minute.

Sadly, I’m not a candidate as my vision is so bizarre it’s not to be believed. Let’s just say that I see fine out of each eye but my eyes don’t play well with each other. I am, possibly, the only predator in the history of creation to have no parallax.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:41:27 +0000

So, has anybody heard about Lasik surgery?!!

Ok, you all talked me into officially thinking about it.

By: dayment

dayment — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:27:25 +0000

http://www.daymented.com/lasik.htm

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:48:12 +0000

Have you thought about lasik? I had it a little over a year ago and I love it madly every single day. I can see! Actually see!

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:14:48 +0000

Debbie, I had an interesting talk with my dentist the other day about the laser eye surgery because he went through it a few years ago and it isn’t at ALl what I thought it was. I told him I would NEVER let ANYONE near my eyes with a laser or cutting and he laughed and said I had misunderstood the entire process. Apparently, what they do is put a small cup over your eye for about 5 minutes while you’re awake (there is no pain) and the eyeball is squeezed a little. Sometimes they can do only one eye but through the magic of the brain, both begin to see clearly without glasses within a day or so. Even in the last three years since he had it done, there has been even more progress made and now they use radio waves and not laser. Either way, it’s not at all the scary procedure I thought it was. He enthusiastically recommended it, said it was super-easy, super-simple, no recovery time and a piece of cake. And now he can see without glasses. He says this one medical procedure is, in his opinion, most fantastic thing we’ve come up with medically for the last 50 years. Just this simple little thing.

So, now I’m thinking of looking into it, since it’s not the “operation on my eye” I thought it was at all. Just FYI.

By: dayment

dayment — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:22:54 +0000

I got contacts in 5th grade (1979-80) and wore them mainly through the mid-90′s.
EYE BOOGERS.
I swear to God my eyes manufacture more eye boogers than any other mammal on the planet. I spent hours total per day swabbing hoarks out of my eyes. The good long ones you actually PULL away from your face.
THAT’s attractive.
I miss miss miss my Malcolm X glasses – they broke a few years ago and THAT’S when I knew I was ready for Lasik (because stupid Artcraft stopped making my frames).
Check it:
http://www.daymented.com/images/Seattle/s31_jss_bunny.jpg
My point is – until you’re ready for :shudder: the scalpel and some beaming lazers to burn, er, correct your eyes, I think your glasses look FABULOUS. Even if I haven’t really seen them.