My eyes! My eyes!

Okay, so I'm having a bit of a problem this morning. My left eye feels like there is something on my contact. Only trouble is, I took out my contact lenses this morning before I showered. Sometimes when I feel like this, it will go away if I shower with them out. This time it didn't. When I tried to put my contacts back in, it got even worse. I have this sinking feeling like I'm developing pink eye because the last time I got pink eye it felt like there was a hair on my eye. This doesn't feel quite the same as that, but it's close.

Anyway, I'm kinda screwed. I'm supposed to go help my auntie clean off her back porch, but I can't very well do that if I can't see. I can't put my glasses on because I left them over in my house-sitting house before I came home for the holidays. If I put in just the right contact lens, it would probably give me a headache.

So, yeah. I'm not quite sure what to do here. I'm so blind I have to bend like three inches from the screen to even see what I'm typing. I'm sure this post is littered with typos. Ah, well.

The eyes have it

Bad puns aside, it seems things are doing better. Now that a little over an hour has gone by (almost an hour and a half), I have both contact lenses in. The left begins to sting every little while, but it's better than being blind.

For those that think I'm being hyperbolic, I can assure you I'm not. In North America, legal blindness is described as vision at a power of 20/200 or worse without correction. If I don't wear my correction, my vision is at the level of 20/400. I'm blind, guys, like seriously.

Not quite so blind as yahrlan, or my aunt, but blind nonetheless. In fact, I'm pretty sure that as I get older I'm going to need lasik surgery and still have to wear correction.