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Let me tell you about the time that I purchased new contact solution.

I had just moved into University, and had been living with my roommates (Frog girl, Hannibal, and Whovian) for roughly... two days by this time.

I had just gotten my contacts a month before, and had been using the solution provided by the optometrist. When I ran out, I honestly had no idea what I was doing. I went to the store and stood there like an idiot scanning the shelf for about 30 minutes until I found what seemed like a good brand to me.

 It said it is clinically proven #1 in comfort,  gentle on the eyes, kills germs, and the lenses would not need a rinse prior to insertion. Perfect.

In red all around the bottle, it was specified not to rinse the lenses in Clear Care prior to insertion, only to soak. This was weird, so I read the instructions when I got the bottle home. The instructions said to soak the lenses in the lens case for 6 hours prior to use. Okay then.

Therefore, I took out the lens case and realized that it was WEIRD. It stood upright. I was to put my lenses into some caged device, and then slip it into the vial of solution. I’ll be damned if I wanted to put my delicate, fragile, scratchable lenses in what looked like a medieval torture device. I decided to use my own lens case; after all, most contact lens cleaners come with their own case, right? This must just be an advertising ploy.

MOTHER FUCKING WRONG.

I woke up at about 7:30am and went to the sink to get my contacts. I proceeded to take the right contact and get it almost to my eye before it fell into the sink. I took it from the sink and rinsed it with water and then with the contact solution that it had been sitting in overnight (as per following instructions). I went to put it into my eye, and it burned where it touched, so I didn’t bother putting it all the way in.

I thought that perhaps some soap had gotten on it from the sink. This seemed rational to me, more rational than the reality seems to be. So, I put it back into the solution after another rinse to soak. Meanwhile I took the other lens and put it into my eye all at once.

HELL! SUCH HELL!

My eye burned like a thousand white-hot suns in hell, it cramped and pulsed like a broken appendage, my head felt like an explosion of pain. My eye snapped shut, tears rolling out of it as it tried to right itself; tears rolling out of my other eye from pain. The bright bathroom lights made the agony worse as I tried to pry my eye open. My breath came out in sharp hisses as I clawed at my face vainly.

I staggered to my darkened room, hissing, clawing, and writhing like Regan from the Exorcist. Before I entered my room, I saw, from my good eye, a flash of orange across the hall. Oh, great. My roommate (Frog Girl) had seen me. My new roommate, who has known me all of two days, has woken up to me staggering around her apartment and clawing at her face, like Gollum and the ring. She must be so impressed. However, I didn’t care at that moment, I had more pressing matters on my mind.

I realized I could not see as I staggered my way to my darkened room and pried my eye open. Whimpering and hissing as the air touched my eye; I clawed the lens out. I threw it across the room, as if it was a diseased spider from hell, and staggered to the bathroom where I washed my eye thoroughly with water until the fire had lessened. I looked up to find both eyes a bright shade of red. I looked over, to find Frog Girl gone. Her door shut tight and I could only infer that she was in her room calling a priest now to come and have a look at me. At least the others were asleep.

 I put eye drops in and went off to my computer, eyes still burning and running.

I found out there is hydrogen Peroxide in the solution, which can only be neutralized in the special case provided after 6 hours. Let me spell this out for you. Someone came up with the wonderful idea that a contact solution should contain hydrogen peroxide. Do you know why contacts have their name? Because they make CONTACT with your eye.  I don’t know about you, but out of all of the things in the world that I would rather didn’t make contact with my eye, hydrogen peroxide is at the top of my list…before lampreys, have you seen those things??? Ugh.

Things I don’t want in my eye

  Hydrogen peroxide

Lampreys

Fire

Anything that is over 100 degrees Celsius

Anything under 0 degrees Celsius

Spiders (tarantula hair especially)

Hot Sauce

Bumble bees

Wasps

Porcupines

Dung beetles

Spider Monkies

Eye lashes

Almost anything that isn’t my contact lenses

  Anyways, I signed on to the company website to read more about the product, and that's when I found it half way down the page:

" Lenses must be soaked in the provided lens case for at least 6 hours prior to inserting the lens on the eye. Otherwise, burning and stinging may result."

OH FUCKING REALLY?! It MAY result???

My eyes burned for the rest of the day, and well into the next day. My classmates thought I was high, or sick. My roommates probably thought the same, until I had explained to them what happened. It was a true sign of the friendship that was about to happen between us all, when after ensuring I was O.K. they all began to laugh at me.