Contacts

January 21, 2010 by Adam in Sam

Sam got contacts today.  For a week he's been doing his homework, touching his eye ten times, twice a day.  I rushed home from work and took him and Emma to see Dr. Arbow.  Emma sat on my lap as we watched pictures being taken of Sam's eye and get contacts popped in for testing.

He was pretty excited and seemed to really like it.  The tricky part was yet to come, actually taking out and putting them back in himself.  I think it took nearly an hour and a half, considerbly suffering on Sam's part, and assorted helpful advice from the doctor.  Still, he was cleared to wear them home.

It became exciting once again when it took him a half hour to take them out.  The main problem is that his lids and eyeballs seem to have a life of their own.  I eventually got him to look forward while pinching his eyeballs and he could reliably remove them.

He's excited to put them in tomorrow and show off to his friends.  I'm proud of that boy.