How many people here wear contact lenses?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by alnorth

I've never understood why some people are lazy about contacts. I'm lazy about a lot of things, but never that. My sight is the 2nd-most valuable thing I have after my mind. I'll do nothing to put it in any more risk than necessary, and if my doctor says sleeping with my contacts in is a bad idea, I wont do it. I even use the name-brand solution because I was told the generic stuff wasn't as good. That might be false, but I'm taking no chances with my eyes.

[rain man irrationality]And yet you put a foreign object in them and don't protect them with an armored lens protecting against light-speed rocks and stuff.[/irrationality]

I know I'm completely irrational about it, and contacts are harmless. It just gives me the heebie-jeebies, and seems like one more life complication that's optional over just swiping a washcloth across a lens.

Though I sure wish I could get back to good eyesight. In the past five years, my up-close vision has completely gone to hades.