So many people scared of contacts!
Everyone's different, but I wore soft contacts for 25+ years & never had a serious problem.
The worst I had to deal with was getting pinkeye from my kids, & that just meant wearing glasses for a few days & disinfecting the contacts really well.
Second worst, having the contact rip in half while I was wearing it & having to get the pieces out of my eye (which sounds a lot worse than it was, it wasn't really a big deal as your eye automatically works to get foreign objects out).
I did occasionally fall asleep with my contacts in, and sometimes they were a little stuck, but they always came off pretty easily - maybe it's a worse problem if you have dry eyes? Or maybe if you just use a little sense and drench 'em with saline they'll rehydrate and come loose again...
As far as staring at the campfire fusing the lenses to the cornea, I've had lenses dry out quite a bit from staring at a fire, and then when you blink they kind of pop out. Snopes says this one is false, btw.
At first it was weird to stick something in my eye, but after a while I didn't even need to use a mirror to get them in properly - just open the case, rinse the lens, and pop it in.
For me contacts were way better than glasses, and LASIK has been way better than contacts.
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"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992
My classmate once told me a disaster where she forgot to take it off before sleeping. And when she woke up, her eyes were VERY irritated and the contacts won't come off. In the end, she had to go to the hospital and she had her eyes scraped. She even told me about the blade scraping her eyes. Uugh! It's so scary.
