Eye Exams

Yesturday, I had an eye exam to check to see if my eyes are getting worse. So I get to the office and get right in which is amazing in itself. Not only this but I didn't have to sit in the exam room for 20 minutes before the doctor came in either! I thought this was fantastic. (Waiting in the waiting room is one thing but having to wait once you get in the exam room is completely unacceptable and should never be tolerated, but it is none the less.) Anyways, I have been wearing glasses/contacts for the last 7-8 years I would say and it's been probably 6 years since my last eye exam. I forgot how uncomfortable it is when they get all up in your face with the light that seems like it's going to jab your eye out at any second. I couldn't help but laugh a couple times. Then at one point during the exam my doctor puts these drops into my eyes. He's like "that's probably gonna sting a little for a few seconds." At first I didn't feel anything, felt like regular eye drops, then Bam! all the sudden I felt lots of stinging sensations. I asked him what that was that he put in my eye and he told me that it was battery acid. Funny guy my doctor. Anyways I have more to tell.
I'm gonna go ahead and confess that I don't have good habits when it comes to taking care of my contacts. For example, a.) I don't change the solution in my case everyday or every week, b.)I sleep in my contacts and sometimes they stay in multiple days in a row, c.) if one falls out and no solution is at hand I like to improvise and use my own saliva (disgusting, I know...but I do it anyway), d.) I make one pair of contact lenses last as long as possible, which means:until they hurt all the time or they just won't stay in any longer. and e.) I use the generic solution brand, which evidently isn't good enough according to my eye doctor. Yeah, I never took the "Care of Contacts 101" class. So to make a long story short my eye doctor kinda lectured me the entire time I was there, but my eyes are the same as before so I will continue to care for or not care for my contacts in the same manner as before. I am going to try harder not to sleep in my contacts though, because that is not pleasant to wake up to. Speaking of sleep, I think I've dosed off a couple times while writing this so I'm going to go to bed now.