25 years ago or so when I first got hard lenses, they gave me a little suction cup/plunger thing to help get them out. After a late night at the bars, I just couldn’t get one les out no matter how I blinked. So I found the plunger, moistened it, and fastened it to the lens. The damned thing was really stuck on there, because I had to pull pretty hard on the plunger before it would disengage with an audible “SNAP.” Determined, I repeated it many a time. Sometimes the SNAP would be preceded by a series of streaks of light.
After 10-20 attempts, I decided to take a good look at my (now red) eyeball and see if I could figure out how it was stuck on so firmly. When what should I see way down in the corner of my eye…?
No torn cornea, but definitely not an UL. :rolleyes:
OMG! I used to have the teeny suction cup thingy and it yellowed with age and got a little stiff and I threw it out, thinking I’d just pick up another one at the store and now I can’t find one anywhere!!! No one seems to know what I’m talking about, not even eye doctors. My kingdom for a teeny suction cup thingy!
You are not being rude, I don’t mind people on here asking questions about it.
I have mental health problems and for the past year have drunk antifreeze, neat, as a form of self harm. Subsequently I have had kidney and liver problems and damage to my eyes.
I hate the contact behind the eye phenomenon. One, about 10 years ago, this happened and I was looking in the mirror trying to poke and prod the eyelid, and move my eye around until I could get the thing out. Finally I saw the little blue edge of it, got it between my fingers, and pulled it slowly.
And with it came a foot-long, jet black hair. At the time I had short, light brown hair, so it definitely wasn’t mine.
Ugh, these stories are killing me. I had to go to the eye doctor today because yesterday I was putting up ceiling tile and a small chunk of it managed to get lodged deep up inside my eyelid. Took the eye doctor four tries to get it out. He said the damage to my eye was “not superficial, but not deep either.” Still feels like somebody socked me right in the eye hole, though.
I’ve heard about the drunk guy story before and just thinking about it makes me literally shriek and flail. I’ve worn lenses before – soft disposables – so I’m not new to sticking a finger in my eye, but that sort of thing… :eek:
