Contact Lenses

The Hoya lenses are ready, much to our surprise. We were told that they could take up to 6 weeks but we got ours in 1. We collected the new glasses and at the same time, have Lil Shauna learn how to wear contact lenses. Yes, we bought her contact lenses, largely to wear during ice skating.

The lenses on the glasses had visible "honeycomb" patterns. Lil Shauna said that the initial sensation is weird. The honeycomb design causes sharp and blur vision. I am not sure how that helps but we will know if they work after 6 months. The optician said that these glasses are not meant for sports and the kids should change back to their single vision glasses like during PE. So 麻烦 right? The kids didn't believe me when I told them that wearing glasses is troublesome. Mummy knows best!

Lil Shauna doesn't wear her glasses on ice despite being very blind in 1 eye. The glasses would probably fly when she spins and jumps on the ice. When we asked if she would like to try contact lenses instead, she jumped at the opportunity.

We were told that the "learning" would take about half an hour. We headed down on Sunday morning in hope that she would be able to wear the trial pair for ice skating.

She took longer than 30 mins. The 1st attempt was tough. She kept thinking that she would poke herself blind. Zzzzzzz. The left eye was easier. She attempted to wear it for 3x and removed them twice during the session. Throughout, the optician patiently helped her to clean and reclean the lenses and put them in position (on her finger). Who would help her do that next time? She also killed 1 pair, dropping them onto the floor.

The contact lenses gave her headache in the beginning but she persisted. She wore them to ice skating and for the 1st time in a long time, she was skating with clear vision. What is more comforting is that she still remembers her Axel jump. Hohoho.
We also took time to try to be graceful and dramatic to her competition routine and I have to say that we are making progress.

She wanted to remove the contact and fortunately successfully did so. If she didn't, I wouldn't be able to help and would have to bring her back to the optical shop.

She said that it was easier to take them out than to wear them.

Her new glasses look.

I am glad that she didn't react adversely to the contact lenses. Lil Shauna said that she has classmates who started contact lenses since last year. The kids really do start young now.

Mummy Lim