Contacts and Crack
so, being in a very expensive place to live, we get quite a few 'low-income' patients at the office. this one patient came in and he'd never had any vision correction in his life and he was well into his 20's. after his exam, we saw that he had a prescription of -6.50. for those of you not familiar with eye talk, a -4.00 can't even see the big E on the eye chart so he's way worse than that. instead of 20/20, he's 20/400-.
anyway, we loaned him some free trial contact lenses but they only last a month and then they are supposed to order a box or two. he came back when his contacts expired and he was shaky and sweating and kept rocking back and forth while repeating, 'i need more contacts, how soon can i get more contacts, what can i do to get more contacts? do they make a permanent contact that you don't have to replace?' uh, that's called LASIK. i've never seen anyone going through withdrawl over contacts but i guess once you taste what it's like to see, you might start acting like you need another hit.
anyway, we loaned him some free trial contact lenses but they only last a month and then they are supposed to order a box or two. he came back when his contacts expired and he was shaky and sweating and kept rocking back and forth while repeating, 'i need more contacts, how soon can i get more contacts, what can i do to get more contacts? do they make a permanent contact that you don't have to replace?' uh, that's called LASIK. i've never seen anyone going through withdrawl over contacts but i guess once you taste what it's like to see, you might start acting like you need another hit.
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