The 23-year-old said she was in the ‘worst pain she’d ever felt’.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Just the idea of touching my eye with my finger… I realize there’s a contact lens between them, but that doesn’t really change the ickiness of the idea to me.

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        3 months ago

        You eventually get used to it

        One time I tried for 5 minutes to get my contact lens out, getting desperate enough to scratch from the white to the iris with my fingernail. I thought I was scratching the contact lens until I felt something weird in the side of my eye.

        The fucking thing slid behind my eye at some point.

        So I scratched my literal fucking eyeball with very little pain.

        My vision was blurry, but I could see only one contact lens was removed in the container. I concluded that it must still be in there and that the bad vision was just my mind playing tricks on me.

        Point is, you can get pretty comfortable touching your eyeball.

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    3 months ago

    Really? Can’t be a barrista anymore because you can only see from one eye? I’ve wore a patch before. It isn’t much of a hindrance, really.

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      3 months ago

      Big issue I’d have is that I really wouldn’t want to drive with only one eye. Loss of depth perception and visual field would be a significant concern.

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        3 months ago

        Literally thousands do it, though. The depth perception thing is a bit overblown, really. You aren’t losing that much depth perception.

        Also, the article states her reasons for having to quit, and driving there isn’t one of them.