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 Posted: 02/01/06 - 10:12 Post subject:
This is getting more difficult by the minute! 
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jrjo
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 10:25 Post subject:
22-yrs in contacts and aside from a few teenage blunders, I haven't had a single prob in the last 20-yrs... no rips, tears, losses, eye gouges or anything. Peeps that tried 'em once years ago don't realize the modern day ones are ultra comfy, easy-easy-easy to care for and last forever. 
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TreKay
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 10:50 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | 22-yrs in contacts and aside from a few teenage blunders, I haven't had a single prob in the last 20-yrs... no rips, tears, losses, eye gouges or anything. Peeps that tried 'em once years ago don't realize the modern day ones are ultra comfy, easy-easy-easy to care for and last forever. |
amen brotha!!!
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cherylpf
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 11:08 Post subject:
JU have you made it to 44 with no glasses or contacts? You are my hero. I have neither and I keep thinking "probably at 30..." although neither of my sisters, 34 and 40 wear them either. I can't stand the idea of fingers in my eyes either, even though my mom has done it daily for 20 years. Good luck!
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 11:28 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | JU have you made it to 44 with no glasses or contacts? You are my hero. I have neither and I keep thinking "probably at 30..." although neither of my sisters, 34 and 40 wear them either. I can't stand the idea of fingers in my eyes either, even though my mom has done it daily for 20 years. Good luck! |
almost at 39, never had them yet either. i rue the day i'm told i need some though.  . there will be another thread jst like this one when they tell me i need to correct my vision
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jrjo
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 11:34 Post subject:
You don't stick yourself in the eye!! 
The technique I've found and have used for years is I perch the lense on my middle finger, add a couple drops of solution so it's a "full bowl". Then I use my ring finger to hold my lower lid down for a second and place the lense in. The trick is that the "full bowl" of solution "pulls" the lense to the eye, wets the eye so the lense glides immediately and the barrier of the full bowl means I never actually put my finger on my eye. It's one of those liquid-adhesion kind of things. It's not like putting on a sticker and pushing your eyeball.
Getting them off is a quick pinch/grab, but again, a dry fingertip also adheres them to your finger and there's no pressure on the eyeball.
All-in-all, I kid you not, I spend a grand total of maybe 30-seconds of my day to get them in, out and stored  ...and I'm as squimish as they come, so go figure. 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 11:42 Post subject:
You pinch/grab WHAT to get them out? YOUR EYE. Fingers in eye = does not compute. I'm hoping my day is way in the future and when it comes, give me coke bottle bottom glasses, I don't care.
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jrjo
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 11:48 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | You pinch/grab WHAT to get them out? YOUR EYE. |
Not your eye... the lense! Like picking up a post-it note...you don't actually feel/push/brush the surface of what's below it after you get good at it
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cherylpf
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 11:51 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: | | You pinch/grab WHAT to get them out? YOUR EYE. |
Not your eye... the lense! Like picking up a post-it note...you don't actually feel/push/brush the surface of what's below it after you get good at it |
yep. too close.
You should see me put drops in my eyes. I can't even stand that. I usually end up with drops all down my cheeks and forhead. Stuff in (or even near) my eyes = cannot process request as entered.
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 11:55 Post subject:
my peepers work fine.
I have no advice to give you.
Eat Carrots!
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 12:24 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | You pinch/grab WHAT to get them out? YOUR EYE. Fingers in eye = does not compute. I'm hoping my day is way in the future and when it comes, give me coke bottle bottom glasses, I don't care. |
 But yes, I hear exactly what you're sayin' I nearly put my eye out with a pencil one day as I was doing paperwork and eating pretzel sticks. 
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rolling rock
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 12:27 Post subject:
wait till you need reading glasses -- that just adds to the
don't know nothin' bout no contacts though.
i remember seeing kids "spit" on them to clean them though 
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 12:36 Post subject:
Huh? Why are you driving if you can't pass the eye test now?
I wear both. NOt at the same time.
I've worn contacts, sometimes you do get sweat and sunscreen in your eyes, same as if you don't have contacts.
I also wear my glasses, although I try not to when running, they fog up on me.
Good luck!
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 12:40 Post subject:
| Kimba90 wrote: | Huh? Why are you driving if you can't pass the eye test now?
I wear both. NOt at the same time.
I've worn contacts, sometimes you do get sweat and sunscreen in your eyes, same as if you don't have contacts.
I also wear my glasses, although I try not to when running, they fog up on me.
Good luck! |
Last time I renwed my DL I passed it but barely. I doubt I'll pass it when I renew next month. Time for glasses/contacts.
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gretriever
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Posted: 02/01/06 - 12:43 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | You should see me put drops in my eyes. I can't even stand that. I usually end up with drops all down my cheeks and forhead. Stuff in (or even near) my eyes = cannot process request as entered. |
Same here, Pfff. And they don't make the coke-bottle lenses anymore - or at least I hope not. The vision in my bad eye (right) was at one time 20/200 - it's gotten much better, and my lenses were never real thick like that.
But it was real bad long enough where I had to learn to do archery and shooting left-handed. That's all I do from the left, though I'd give my right arm to be ambidexterous.
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