[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

I can't imagine putting a contact on my eyeball. Of course, I think I was scarred for life when my aunt stayed at our house for a couple of nights because her contact scratched her eye. I have been super terrified of anything near my eyes ever since. Two of my aunts had lasik (before it was a laser) and they didn't really see a whole ton of difference. Now, everyone and their dog is having lasik done. I hate my stupid glasses, but I hate anything near my eyes more. LOL

I'm probably a 6 million/6 million by now. LOL When I was a kid, I think I remember them saying I was 30/50 or something. I have no clue what it is now.

I've never been around someone whose eye was scratched by a contact lens. I think that can only happen with the hard ones, not the soft ones like I have. But, it's still freaky when I have a tear or rip in one of mine. Sometimes I don't realize it and then I just put the thing in my eye. And then I can't understand why my eye hurts! I'll finally get the bright idea to take it out to see what the deal is and there's a gigantic tear!

Anyway, I had the biggest phobia about anything touching my eye when I was in high school. It just made me sick. And when I was getting fitted for my contacts, I couldn't stop myself from pushing the person's hand away who was just trying to help me. It was like this involuntary reflex--I COULD NOT let her do that. Then when they were in, it felt so bizarre. I remember saying, "Okay, but once I take them out, which I have to do at some point, I'm not going to want to put them back in again!" The doctor just laughed. It actually took me only a couple of weeks to get over all of that. Now I'll touch my eyeball to my heart's content, though it doesn't make my heart particularly content to do so, but it's just an expression. So, the point of this rambling is to say that I'm sure that if you wanted to try contacts, Christy, you could do it, too. You could get over that phobia easier than you think, I bet.