Yesterday morning as I was finishing my shower I rubbed my eyes. It made my contact move to the side of my eyeball. I could feel that it was there, so I just closed my eye, dried off, and went looking for it using the mirror. I couldn’t find it. And what was worse, I didn’t feel it in my eye any more. Usually that’s not a big deal because I have a bunch of extra pairs of contacts, but this was my last pair, and I don’t have a current prescription so I can’t order more.
I searched in the tub, on the floor, in my towel, in my hair… I couldn’t find it. So I took the contact out of my other eye and put on my glasses. I thought I would just wear glasses until I could get to the eye doctor.
I was in the hallway at school after homeroom and was rubbing my face (because I like to rub my face), and my eye started hurting. I blinked and blinked, and out popped my lost contact. Yay! But I didn’t have my contact case with me. Dang! So I got some bottled water (thanks, Michele) and put my contact in a small cup.
I successfully avoided accidentally drinking it all day, and after soaking it in saline solution all night, it’s fresh as a daisy.
Don’t some doctors recommend drinking a contact lens a day? You might have fewer health problems if you’d just slurp that.
Is the pink post-it note a list of children that you don’t like? I like to just keep that list on the board, but maybe you keep it by your desk.
Hey, my green pen is missing … could you try blinking again?
I have a friend (Lisa) that did the same thing – rubbed her eye and pushed her contact lens way over. She couldn’t feel it either, and then she felt something weird in her eye, and then something weird in her throat. She had swallowed her lens without even putting it in her mouth! Lisa’s sister worked at an eye doctor’s office at the time, so she had her sister ask the doctor if it was possible (or if she was really just imagining things). He said it could happen!
Be glad you didn’t have hunt to retrieve yours.
yikes!
What the what the?? Great! Now I have one more thing to worry about, and I don’t even wear contacts! Are you kidding? Because I’m super-gullible.
I bet it was especially hard because she couldn’t see what she was doing.
Ba-dum-bum.
(That’s a poor written version of a drum roll.)
I got it, no explanation needed…