Express to the Floor

Last night I nearly passed out as I was rummaging around in my eye for half a contact. Pahhh! Let me explain..........

I was taking my contacts out last night and as I went to extract the contact in my left eye my eyelid did something silly and shuttered shut JUST as I'd pinched the contact to pull it out. Well, my contact didn't appreciate the eye flutter and ripped itself right in half. I discarded the half contact on my finger into the trash can and immediately set to finding the other half. That involved looking in the mirror very up close and personal to try and find something that is near invisible. Not easy!

There I stood staring into the mirror, fighting with my dumb eyeball for the other half of contact that remained to be MIA. I couldn't find it but ohhhhh, could I feel it! I stood there leaning over the counter, day old mascara chunks sliding on my cheeks from tears, I had panic written in my eyes, I was starting to get hot from worry and frustration, and I was starting to make myself sick. Every time I would squeeze my eye, thinking I had the contact, I'd pull up a little bit of "something" and I couldn't tell if it was eye membrane or the half piece of contact! But just the thought and my overactive imagination was enough to do me in and I immediately started getting that warm feeling. I would have laughed out loud at myself had the moment not been so serious. I had to start fanning myself with my hand just to help cool me down and prevent the next step to passing out.

After blinking my eye in water and rubbing it more times than I could count, the little piece of contact DID in fact make it out but it sure put forth a good fight and nearly brought me to the floor in the process. All I could think about was what that clear fold of stuff was that I continued to see each time I'd pinch my eye and it was enough to gross me out.

Moments like that remind me of the first day I wore contacts at the Wal-Mart eye center and I passed out on their lobby floor. LOL! Ohhhhh, good times...............