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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷11/20/2020 6:54:31 pm PST

re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter

I was extremely near sighted and wore hard lenses (which are made of plastic, not glass) for over 40 years. The advantage over soft lenses is that they lasted forever until you needed a new prescription (or broke it when you dropped one and accidentally stepped on it). With the original hard lenses, if you lost one and found it months later, it was as good as new — just needed a rinsing. Later switched to gas-permeable which were also durable (sort of) but needed to be stored in special fluid overnight. I stopped wearing contacts after cataract surgery a few years ago, but still need glasses for distance.

Back in the Eighties my sister tried out soft contacts. She lost one, and found it a few days later stuck to a light bulb on a table lamp. It sort of looked like a burnt corn flake.

I’ve never used contacts. I could never get past the squick factor of sticking my finger in my eye, the Navy is not big on them for reasons regarding fumes, chemicals, and NBC warfare, &c.

I’ve used plastic lens glasses before, but they seem to scratch too easily. I only wear glass lenses.