Olivia went to the eye dr. last Wednesday to get contacts. I had called and asked about the one-day contacts he mentioned at our appointment last November because she had gone through one competition seeing what she called "gingerbread people" on stage. I was told she could not get the one-day contacts after all due to her astigmatism. So...regular aspherical contacts it was!
At first, the nurses put the contacts in her eyes, and Liv loved them. She had to sit in the waiting room for a bit to let her eyes adjust and wait for the dr. After he checked them out, she was taken into a room to learn how to take them out and put them back in. THAT is where the problem started...
We were in the dr.'s office for a total of 2 1/2 hours...and the nurses were wonderful! They were so patient and did not ever seem frustrated with Olivia AT ALL! One nurse (I think she was the dr's wife...) even took a pair of rarely-prescribed contacts and put them on her knuckles to let Olivia practice pulling them off to simulate her movements needed to take them out. This same nurse ended up giving us her home number in case we had problems getting them out that night!
When we left the office, Liv still did not know now to put them in nor take them out. However, by the next night, she was ready to try again and learned how to take them out on her own! Even now, she has problems putting them in, but can take them out without any problem at all! They certainly helped with competition this past weekend! Yea!
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