Long ago, when I first got glasses, there were only hard contact lenses, and I asked if I could get contacts and was told flatly "No." I have a vertical astigmatism. Normal people, it appears, have horizontal astigmatims. For this reason, it was impossible that contacts, even very expensive contacts, would be remotely viable - and even to attempt it would be very expensive. And uncomfortable.
So I didn't.
In recent years, I've thought that what with all the amazing advances in the technologies involved, SUREly my vertical astigmatism would pose no obstacle to my joining the contact-wearing hordes. And I rather like the way I look without my glasses. I'm not walk-into-walls blind without them, by any means, but I'm probably-shouldn't-drive and will-certainly-go-nuts-from-everything-being-so-blurry impaired, so I thought contacts would be nice. And viable. And maybe even affordable, someday.
I read you entry and fear that I have been vastly optimistic. Alas. Although, since I couldn't get them now anyhow, it's probably just as well for me to believe that they wouldn't have worked out. :)
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Date: 2005-05-10 03:07 am (UTC)Long ago, when I first got glasses, there were only hard contact lenses, and I asked if I could get contacts and was told flatly "No." I have a vertical astigmatism. Normal people, it appears, have horizontal astigmatims. For this reason, it was impossible that contacts, even very expensive contacts, would be remotely viable - and even to attempt it would be very expensive. And uncomfortable.
So I didn't.
In recent years, I've thought that what with all the amazing advances in the technologies involved, SUREly my vertical astigmatism would pose no obstacle to my joining the contact-wearing hordes. And I rather like the way I look without my glasses. I'm not walk-into-walls blind without them, by any means, but I'm probably-shouldn't-drive and will-certainly-go-nuts-from-everything-being-so-blurry impaired, so I thought contacts would be nice. And viable. And maybe even affordable, someday.
I read you entry and fear that I have been vastly optimistic. Alas. Although, since I couldn't get them now anyhow, it's probably just as well for me to believe that they wouldn't have worked out. :)