I can already feel the blank stares of the people who haven't known me in one of my prior lens-wearing periods and haven't discussed these things with any of the fairly small number of other people out there who use them. So here's the background on what's going on.
( Nifty things you can do to eyeballs using rigid gas permeable lenses... )

I voted with my impatience and decided to go ahead and do the lens thing. Even if this turns out to have been a poor choice, at least this time I won't regret procrastinating it for another year when I had a chance to do it.

Yesterday wasn't too bad. I awoke with kind of mediocre vision, but good enough that I could be fairly functional for an hour ( Read more... )

Finally found my old contact lenses, which I've been searching for since Thanksgiving because I'd decided to return to wearing them, partly because my glasses prescription isn't strong enough anyway, and partly because I hate not being able to lie with the side of my head against something when I'm awake because my glasses interfere and it's ( Read more... )