Wearing contacts

I've had bad vision every since I've been little and was one of the original "coke bottle" (extremely thick lenses like the glass soda bottles of the time) glasses kid. And even then, they only helped but so much. When I was finally able to wear contact lenses, I loved it. Granted it was the hard lenses, but it was a god send.

Right now, I have had to resort to wearing soft lenses (long story) and I hate them. Getting them in and out is a pain and my eyes literally hurt after wearing them, so I don't wear them every day. No, comfort drops don't help. And, take matters worse, I have to still have to have glasses (readers) to read anything. Something I never had to do with hard lenses. Yeah, I'm working on getting hard lenses again, it's just in the mean time.

Never been a fashionista, but for functionality, glasses barely worked for me. As a kid, the most eye strain was the course work and blackboard. I definitely wouldn't be able to drive; if some approached me at dawn, dusk, or at night, I wouldn't be able to tell If they were a guy or girl (not talking about latest trends here), much less if I knew them; serious depth of field issues regardless of lighting. Still would need to bring reading material very close to see it. I can work, but can't work, but can work according to disability (in otherwirds, have a job that really doesn't require me to have a lot of eye strain/vision usage to do the job, which i know very few jobs that do.), which I don't want till I actually NEED to have it and I'm not quite there yet.

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