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Oh, duh, forgot to mention. I got my hard lenses today. They're RGPs, rigid gas permeables.

They feel very, very strange. They're smaller than my corneas (soft lenses are bigger--you can see them if you get really close up). They're very definitely hard plastic, as my eyes keep reminding me: "Blink! Blink!! We have something stuck to our eyes!!" And every time I blink, I can feel them, and they move around a little. They kinda bounce up and down when I blink, actually, and the edges of my vision do funky things--if I look into the corners of my eyes, I can see the edges of the lense for half a second, until it floats over there. Things also get slightly blurry for about half a second. Even that half-second of blur is clear enough for me, though; and when they settle in, my vision is even better than with my glasses.

I'm attempting to wear them for a whole hour, I was able to do half an hour earlier. I'm going to add a bit of time every day until I can wear them all day. *crosses fingers* I've been warned about how irritating they are at first, and they were right. ARGH. Plus, they make my eyes feel oddly dry.

They're going to give me a little plunger thing in case the contacts float to a spot they don't belong, and I'm apparently going to get callouses on the insides of my eyelids. Freaky.

In a random side note, at Costco they have these little bottle-shaped chocolates with various kinds of liqour in them. The chocolate is vegan. *snarf* Yummy.

Date: 2005-12-02 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] koschei23.livejournal.com
I'm glad that I got braces when I was in junior high. But you know, braces nowadays can be clear and you really don't notice them.

Date: 2005-12-02 08:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aprilstarchild.livejournal.com
The top front six ones would be clear. The rest would be regular metal. Yowza.

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