Lens disaster last night

[Knight]

...Off the subject has anyone else noticed how stretched the eyelids get and how much bigger they appear due to scleral lens, or is it just because I have small eyes?

Yeah one made my eye look puffed up like it was swollen.
As far as I know thou, it can depend as there are a few slightly different types of scleral lenses, with different diameters and thicknesses - I had started off with one that was very wide but if I blinked hard my bottom eye lashes were sucked under it, which was weird, so it was replaced with a smaller one - which kept sinking into the inside area toward my nose causing severe blanching and at times it would go purple, so it was changed again. The last one was a bit thicker and more coned (less domed) than the others which gave my eye a very glassy appearance with puffy eyelids.

btw, never knew you could insure contact lenses at all - does anyone know if you lost one at work or if it got broke due to stuff falling in your office - can you claim the cost of replacing it from your place of employment? Just curious now.

[Andrew MacLean]

Don't know, Knight. You could always give it a go!

I once lost a lens in my office and the cleaner got her hoover (sorry about this advertizing, it may have been a dyson or an electrolux, don't really know) and put what looked like the foot of a nylon stocking on the end bit. This item emerged from the pocket of her overall, and I was afraid to ask why she carried such a thing.

She then went round the room sucking up bits of stuff and examining the outside of her nylon. In no time at all she had found my lens. The moral of this little tale, Knight, is that you ought always to carry the foot end of a pair of nylon tights.

By the way, the Sweedish for vacuum cleaner is 'Stoor Sooker', which plays into my general theory of linguistic convergence around the communities of the North Sea.

Andrew

[Knight]

...The moral of this little tale, Knight, is that you ought always to carry the foot end of a pair of nylon tights...

Might be difficult to explain to my gf and with the dark suit and sunglasses if I ever get searched on my way into a bank, that one might be hard to explain

[GarethB]

Knight,

You must have a small head or you gf has extremely large feet if the foot is enough to go over your head and cover your face

[Andrew MacLean]

Easy enough to explain to the gf, if you ask her for the foot of her tights!

Don't know so much about the bank, though.

Ah well. good ideas seldom come without problems.

Andrew

[Knight]

Knight,

You must have a small head or you gf has extremely large feet if the foot is enough to go over your head and cover your face

Never under estimate the sheer power and technical ability of a complete and utter idiot

[Andrew MacLean]

Gareth

You'd be surprised at the things that people manage to stretch over their quite normal sized heads!

Better not get too far into this line of thought, or we may just end up with a whole string like the one on the places from which A and E departments have had to extricate mobile telephones

There may be more elasticity in the foot of a pair of nylons than you'd imagine.

Andrew

[GarethB]

Andrew,

I would hate to think how a man of your profession knows so much about nylons

[Andrew MacLean]

I am married, and I have friends who are High Court Judges

They dress in Court Dress under their robes, complete with knee breaches and black thghts.

I think that QC's do, too

Andrew

[Paul Morgan]

Back to my lens disaster of several weeks ago......

Bless Somerset Health Authority....they just sent me a cheque for £60.00 to cover the cost of my replacement lens.

You see there is good in the world, and if you don't ask....you don't get!!

Have a nice weekend all.....