Daily Talk; Saturday 26th September

[cheeky~k8]

What have you been up to today? Feel free to share little bits about your day with the community here

[dragonwyst]

My pain in the butt thing for this whole week - and the week before and a few days to go yet - is my right eye deciding it hates my hard contact lens. For some reason, unlike other hard contact lens wearers, my eyes hate lenses with bevelled edges. When I got a new pair at the end of last year, I put them aside and continued with the old pair because they were uncomfortable. Then my other half broke my right one while trying to pick it up for me when I\'d dropped it. For a while I managed to school my eye to tolerate the lens, but now the wheels have come off. It\'s scratchy all the time and my eye waters, but it feels as if the tear film is failing to form under the lens properly so that it\'s as if my eye is simultaneously weepy and dry at the same time!
Iv\'e been back to the optometrist and new lenses have been ordered - with NO bevelled edges, I trust - as the optometrist couldn\'t say for sure whether the right lens has a bevelled edge or not - so I\'m hoping for resolution soon. Meanwhile, it\'s hard to see with the lens in - a pain for driving as my eyes become intensely photosensitive - and I\'m spending time off like now, with the lens out - so seeing at all is a struggle.
And before you ask - no- I can\'t wear glasses. I had my eyes lasered many moons ago and was struck by the Nurse Curse. I was a scrub nurse for Excimer Laser Eye Surgery (LASIK) at the time. I knew the risks and benefits better than anyone. But, when my eyes were lasered, I ended up with keratoconus and astigmatism so bad that glasses can\'t correct it at all. I can only wear hard contact lenses which help to flatten my corneas. 

[Chris]

This is for me, is where my recent time started to go down hill.

I have people trying to work against me in the voluntary work I do - You would think that being unwell, would mean people cut you some slack but oh no.