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Not For the Faint of Eye

The other night I was adjusting the contact in my right eye. Immediately after I did this it felt like a boulder had crawled into my eye. I couldn't see clearly out of that eye anymore, yet could feel that there was definitely still something in that eye socket. The contact felt crumpled up and lodged in the upper right corner of the socket. I spent 40 minutes trying to find the wayward contact either by visual inspection or with the finger that was digging around in there. The tidal wave of saline solution didn't help, nor did the painful, but insistent blinking. In the end I made an emergency run to the eye doctor just as they were closing. The doctor had a difficult time finding anything, but eventually pulled out my contact in two jagged halves. Now I'm forced to wear glasses for a week while my eye recovers and I get a replacement for the casualty of war that once was my contact.