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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: CONTACT LENSES
Message-ID: <839@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 09:12:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 12 09:12:46 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 01:32:16 EDT
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I have worn contact lenses for the past 8 years, and I started off with
much the same aversion to eye drops and the idea of an object in my eye.
I got over it fairly rapidly, as my facility for inserting and removing
the lenses grew.

If your wife has a real phobia, something which would prevent her from
even trying to insert and remove lenses, I think she's not a very good
candidate.  However, if she's motivated and willing to suspend her
distaste, it's worth a try.  In my mind, contact lenses, hard or soft,
have it all over glasses: no more foggy vision when coming in from the
cold, no more need for "windshield wipers" in the rain, better peripheral
vision.

By the way, I STILL can't get those damn drops in my eye!
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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