tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21112957.post5798801099230165024..comments2023-09-23T02:16:11.746-06:00Comments on Thoughts from a Foster Family: AAAHHHHGGG!!!!!!!!Yondallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10375966725096729570noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21112957.post-34408754042248806592007-10-08T11:18:00.000-06:002007-10-08T11:18:00.000-06:00I've worn contacts for about 15 years. The beginn...I've worn contacts for about 15 years. The beginning was not a pretty sight. However, 2 weeks ago while visiting my parents I had one that was bugging me. Mom told me there was solution in the drawer in the bathroom so I just grabbed a bottle - took my contact out - washed it with the solution - put a couple drops on the contact and then put it in my eye! What I didn't do was look at the bottle! My dad used to wear contacts and had a #1 solution and a #2 solution. The #2 was a cleaning solution and meant to sit in a special container over night to dilute the cleaner. OOPS! I put that cleaner (peroxide mix of some sort) directly into my eye! OUCH! Luckily I was in the bathroom and although I did say a few choice words at the time, was able to get the contact out and get the cold water in to flush my eye right away. <BR/><BR/>So what's my point??? What kind of solution is he using? If it's the 2 bottle kind - is he using the correct bottle at the correct time? If's it's the 1 bottle kind - i agree to try a different brand and see if that helps.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17432433124336961571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21112957.post-68559620311482661142007-10-08T10:24:00.000-06:002007-10-08T10:24:00.000-06:00When I tried contacts for the first time, in my mi...When I tried contacts for the first time, in my mid-teens, it was a painful experience. I had a tough time learning to put them in at the dr's office, and when I got them home it was hard to get them in myself. When I finally did, it was much like what you just described happening to Frankie - it hurt so much and I had a lot of trouble calming myself down enough (and opening my eye enough!) to get it out. Ow.<BR/><BR/>It turns out (according to the dr) that I had put it in inside-out, which is apparently very very unpleasant. I would be willing to bet that is what happened to Frankie.<BR/><BR/>He has all my sympathy. That hurt like the dickens.parodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15454972767684196711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21112957.post-35600665389610556272007-10-07T18:09:00.000-06:002007-10-07T18:09:00.000-06:00Okay, I am in my forties. I just started wearing c...Okay, I am in my forties. I just started wearing contacts for the first time last spring, March, I think. <BR/><BR/>Really, it was quite odd. And I am an adult who knows it will be weird and hard at first. I have had several bad experiences. One day it felt like there were needles in my eye, once I lost the contact way up under my eyelid, once I just lost it but kept trying to find it and get it out and it was so horrible and my eye was so irritated that I woke up my boyfriend and made him come look. I was crying and very frustrated at the time. I do not find Frankies reaction at all odd.<BR/><BR/>I love my contacts now, but sometimes there are still issues.<BR/><BR/>Tell him to hang in there, it gets better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21112957.post-82438756777764806232007-10-07T15:05:00.000-06:002007-10-07T15:05:00.000-06:00having had a contact stuck in my eye once, sting i...having had a contact stuck in my eye once, sting is not the first word that springs to mind! if it was in any way off it hurt like all hell. there is something about eye pain that sends one right over the edge in the best of times. hopefully it had more to do with it being his eye than anything else! fingers crossed!!cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12871824703791165363noreply@blogger.com