I have my contact lenses. I wanted extended wear ones, but Specsavers don’t do them for torics – and now I’m very glad they don’t. The distance is fine (although the prescription needs tweaking a bit) but now I can’t do anything close up without reading glasses; can’t see the phone, can’t read the herb jars in the kitchen, etc.
Without glasses or lenses, I can see to read in bed, in the bath, etc. Having to wear glasses for that all the time would drive me crazy – and I’m also very glad I didn’t go through with the laser surgery!
Having said all that, I would like some extended wear ones for when we’re away camping or similar, so I’m going to get a copy of my prescription and order some off that interweb. I’m supposed to go back on 15th May for a checkup, but I’m going to see if I can pull it forward to next Friday, as I really do need something slightly stronger for distance. And once everything has settled down, I might think about daily disposables rather than 30 day ones, so as not to faff about with the cleaning routine, etc, because I doubt I’m going to wear them every single day.
However, by and large, I’m chuffed – having had poor eyesight since the age of 10, every set of lenses I’ve tried, and glasses I’ve worn, has been a compromise of one sort of another, and these lenses are great for being out and about. And I can wear sunglasses!
Cross-posted from my Dreamwidth account.
Specsavers do(did) extended (30 day) wear toric contact lenses. What they might not do is them in your prescription, if your eyes are particularly bad.
Perhaps the dispensing optician was lying to me then.
Now this is quite odd. I went for a checkup today and, as Summer Camp is looming, said “I know you don’t do extended wear torics, but could you give me a prescription so that I can buy some from somewhere else for when I go camping”.
At which point, Vicky informed me that what she had given me *were* extended wear, but she wouldn’t like me to wear them like that all the time. Which I wouldn’t want to either.
But for Spring Camp (as it is this year – did you know?) and drunken nights out, this will be a real boon. Chuffed.
I didn’t know about Spring Camp before you mentioned, but unfortunately I’d been inviting people to Eurocultured weeks in advanced. One year I might make it along though; sadly I tend to be triple booked on Spring/Summer bank holidays.