61. Contact Lenses

I was fitted for contact lenses last Thursday and have been wearing them a bit each day since then as prescribed.  I have two complaints.

First, my eyes are a little gummy.  I don't want to say dry, even though I'm sure that is how they will want me to describe it when I have my follow up visit this Thursday.  Dry is what the lawns in my neighborhood are.  Dry is dusty.  My eyes feel more like mud and less like dust.  It isn't intolerable, and I'm sure the right kind of eye drops would make this minor complaing ever more minor in time.  If this were the only complaint, I don't think I'd be complaining.

Second, they don't help me see any better.  As a matter of fact, for things like reading, I see considerably worse than without them.  I don't have particularly bad eyes.  Slight astigmatism and a bit of near-sightedness.  Things at a distance aren't as sharp as they might be.  When I put on my glasses, I can see the individual grass blades at a distance or the leaves in the tree tops much more sharply.  I wanted contacts because I didn't want to wear glasses to play basketball or softball.  But now I'm thinking my eyesight is not that bad afterall, especially considering that it is obviously worse with the contacts. I will be telling the doctor this on Thursday.