Tips for living with KC! Add yours...

[rosemary johnson]

Response : big bottles of saline can be used to fill up contacts before putting them in, as with amidose. The difficulties with it are: getting the lens full with =out getting bubbles in the saline filling, and b) not splashing the saline everywhere and ending up using far moe of it becuaes of the way it gollops out of big bottles.
The other advantage of aidose little tubes is that you don't want to be lugging the big bottles about in your handbag/manbag/briefcase/pocket.

Tips: develop an individualistic style in big hats with big shady brims. Apart from shading the eyes they are good recognition symbols at picnics, in hospital waiting rooms,e tc and may het you noticed at rOAYL aSCOT.
Set a new trend in the trendiest of watering holes by drinking liqueurs from your old scleral lenses (sorry Ken)
Take a trip to your nearest RNIB office to look round their selections of special kit for people with less-than-perfect vision - everything from HUGE PRINT scrabble to talking computers, to varying shapes/sizes and colours of self-adhesive lumps - I have a selection stuck to my computer keyboard so I can tell which function keys are which even when I don't have the contact lenses in.
While you're there, gen up on the Access To Work scheme and the Disability Discrimination Act.
Only mention the name "Fairy Liquid" when you have the stamina for a long thread.....!!
Rosemary

[Louise Pembroke]

'manbag'?!!! I wanna see a picture of a manbag! Come on guys.
Liquers from scelerals, LOL that's brilliant, I knew they had a use [sorry Ken].

[dweezil1968]

there are some great tips here and things i do without knowing it now!
someone told me once ( I havent tried it) if you drop a hard lens on the floor you can get it by putting a tights over the end of the hoover and then the lens won't go up the pipe, as it were.

[Andrew MacLean]

My office cleaner used to find my dropped lenses in exactly that way!

[Louise Pembroke]

I use a torch to help show it up

[dweezil1968]

I use a torch to help show it up

only when its dark tho............

[pepepepe]

Get a second opinion even if everything seems wonderful, its the best time to.

Pepe

[Val G]

Allow eyes to 'clear' in the mornings before inserting lenses. I need about an hour and a half or I suffer the consequences.

Invest in a dimmer pull cord for the bathroom light. Great on those winter mornings when you have to get ready but the light is TOO bright!