About three and a half months or so ago, I lost one of my last pair of contact lenses, and since I didn’t have health insurance at the time (most casinos have vision coverage) I had to go back to wearing glasses for a while. No big deal, right?
Wrong. After having worn contacts for nearly two years, I couldn’t believe the loss of peripheral vision. On a busy craps game, with money flying at you from all directions, and people setting their bets down somewhere where you can’t quite see out the corner of your eye, not to mention the scumbag who tries to cap his odds after the point rolls, you practically need omnidirectional vision. Going back to glasses after having worn contacts for so long was like dealing with blinders on.
Today I decided to bite the bullet and pay for my own. I won’t be eligible for insurance at my current job for four months, and that’s about seven and a half months longer than I wanted to be without the peripheral vision.
I put them in a couple of hours ago. Right now, instead of just being able to see straight in front of me, I can see probably about two hundred twenty degrees around the room without shifting my eyes.
I can’t wait to be able to see like this on the game.
Congratulations, Thea. Doesn’t it feel great?
I also just got a new pair [sub]after washing one down the drain[/sub]. God I love contacts!
Yeah. Contacts rock.
Ironically, the boxman who recommended I get them reverted to wearing glasses shortly after I did. He developed a sty, and it made it uncomfortable for him to wear them, and once the sty healed, he kept on with the glasses because he has a very ham-fisted cleaning technique and would tear a pair of daily-wears every two months (under normal conditions they should last a year, barring dropping one down the sink). Disposables that were supposed to last two months, he would destroy in two weeks.
It got to be an expensive habit. I don’t know why he didn’t just ask his wife to clean them for him. Hell, he cooks, does laundry and fixes stuff, he’s entitled.
I’ve had contacts for a good 4 years now, and God do I love them. just a while ago I got a pair of glasses, also, and I hardly wear them now because like you said, you have nearly NO peripheral vision.
I had contacts briefly when I was 15, and I had no peripheral vision at all when I was wearing them. They simply didn’t move when I moved my eyes. Everything from walking to doing dishes was impossible without getting a headache either from moving my neck or straining to see around the edges.
Either the pair I had were junk (possible) or my eyes are made wrong (also possible).
Ooh…you can wear sunglasses. Actual sunglasses. Not perscription ones. Not clip on ones. Not the fake changes-color-in-different-light ones. Sunglasses. Even the cheap dimestore ones with funky colored lenses. Yay!