Last night my mother called me, to tell me about the contact that WOULD NOT COME OUT of her eye, no matter what she did, and PLEASE JENN, PLEASE GET IT OUT. Apparently she had slept overnight in her contacts, forgot about rewetting drops, and her normal dry eyes just made the situation worse. I wasn’t able to go over last night, so I told her to come over early this morning, once she sent my brothers to school. She got here around 10am. Bleary-eyed, as I was up really early this morning reading ljusersecrets.suckafree.ws (formerly ljusersecrets at greatestjournal.com) until I was tired enough to pass out on the way from the living room to the bedroom.
I washed my hands really well, grabbed a just-cleaned, very soft washcloth to blot up any excess whatever, had my mom sit near a window in the living room, and took a look at her eye. Honestly, I couldn’t see the contact on her eye like I do on mine. You know how you can usually see that well defined rim around the iris (like mine)? Well, I could see it on hers… barely… but it was right around her iris, almost as if the contact were smaller. I asked her again if she was absolutely certain, with no shadow of a doubt, that the contact was in her eye. She said yes, and swore up and down six ways from Sunday that it was in there and driving her crazy.
An hour later, with a few breaks for me to re-wash my hands and for my mom to use more rewetting drops in her eye, the contact was still not out. I was barely able to move the edge of it from next to her iris. It would lift up a tiny bit, and that was that. At this point, her eye was tearing very badly, very red looking, and very inflamed looking. I told her to call her eye doctor. Between how horrible her eye was looking, and the fact that at the corner of her eye I could see the white part (sclera) actually rippling beneath my very, VERY gentle touch, I was not going to mess with it any more. Let a professional deal with it, I told her. So she called, and after leaving my house early this afternoon, went to her eye doctor to have them take the contact out.
My mom called me this evening. I asked how her appointment at the eye doctor went. “He told me there was no contact in my eye”, my mom said. WHAT!? I practically shriek into the phone, as the word is bouncing around in my head. She went on to tell me that the doctor examined her eye, and then did so three more times, per her request, and confirmed that there was no contact in her eye.
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All that time, first her at her house, and then me today, and we were practically PEELING THE OUTER COVERING OVER HER EYE OFF OF HER EYEBALL. God, the thought has me feeling really nauseous. Anyway, thank goodness, her eye is damaged, though it is very, very sore and inflamed. She has special antibiotic/soothing eye drops to use for a few days, and is banned from her contacts for the next two weeks.
And here I was this morning, swearing up and down and left and right and from A to Z and back again that I would never, EVER nap in my contacts again, after seeing the hassle my mom was having with getting one off. Now I have to revise that to I WILL NEVER EVER MISTAKE MY EYEBALL COVERING FOR A CONTACT.
(Especially since I did nap in my contacts this afternoon!)
16 Comments
, on November 21 2007 at 6:51pm:
Owwwwww!!!!!!!!! That’s making my eyes hurt just thinking about it. I’ve had my contacts for a few years and luckily have not had much problems with them besides them getting dry and every once in awhile them somehow getting in my eye inside out. But again, owwwwww!!!!!
, on November 21 2007 at 8:05pm:
Oh wow! I somehow am worried this is going to happen to me, as I had to put mine back in yesterday.
, on November 21 2007 at 9:17pm:
Surely she would have been able to feel some slight difference in wearing a contact or not? Furthermore, surely not being able to see properly out of the eye without the contact would have hinted at it?
Sorry she put you through all that Jenn
, on November 21 2007 at 9:38pm:
owch!
sometimes at night I think I have mine in still, but then I try and look at the clock and it is all blurry.
I have the type that you can healthily sleep with your contacts in. Best contacts ever. I never have to worry about trying to dig out dry and improperly placed contacts after having sleeping with them in. I have also realized that when I did sleep with them in, and they would move getting stuck near the back of my eye ball … my body would a treat it like a forign object and though lots of tears and blinking it would finally reappear folded in the corner of my eyes. Day Nighter Contacts are the best. I would look into them if I were you, after you have gone though your current supply of other band.
, on November 21 2007 at 10:09pm:
omg what a story!! That’s one of the reasons I would rather not wear contacts at all! Thank goodness nothing serious happened to her eye.
, on November 22 2007 at 12:16am:
omg… That’s just… -shudders- I’m definitely going to stick with glasses for a long time just because of the idea of forgetting about taking them out and then.. Yeah… Ick.
, on November 22 2007 at 3:11am:
I used to always, always leave my contacts in my eyes and sleep with them for up to/around 6 months. Pure laziness – and the fact that I had bunk beds at the time lol. Was a hassle wanting to watch tv, then getting down to take them out etc. Anyway, once I slept with them in and it rolled right up to the top of my eye and was hard to get down. I swore to always take them out after that. I usually do, but keep them in if staying over at friends places.
Also; it is possible to rub it out of your eyes when waking up or something which your mother may have absent mindely done? The only thing I can think of, except you said you could see stuff and it was irritating the daylights out of her.
Anywho, hope her eye gets better! and don’t let this put you off having contacts. They’re more convenient then glasses!
, on November 22 2007 at 4:16am:
holy crap!!! omg lol. yeah this entry definitely made me squirm. eeeeeeeek!!!! glad your mommas eye is ok though!
, on November 22 2007 at 8:10am:
OMG…ew! That is one of the many reasons why I will never wear contacts.
, on November 22 2007 at 12:48pm:
Wow, that sounds awful and gross about peeling part of her eye off. :/ Glad to hear that not more damage was done. Going to the eye doctor was the right thing to do.
, on November 22 2007 at 4:21pm:
I don’t get it though O: How could she not tell that her contact was off? When my contacts come off usually I go blind.
What I hate the most is when I stare at something too long and my contacts get dry and I blink. And then my contacts get shoved into the corner of my eye and sticks there. Now THAT sucks =x
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That made my stomach turn. OMG.