It's hard for me to believe I have been wearing contact lenses for about 25 years, starting when I was in sixth grade. I well remember the frustration of learning how to put them in and take them back out and how I would be on the verge of giving up. Then there were the many times I would lose a contact. Sometimes I forgot to plug the sink and would see it drop down the sinkhole. My dad would take the sink apart to try to find my contact. Sometimes there was no hope of finding a lost contact and I "practically died" because I had to wear my glasses to school. Despite the obstacles, I was determined to wear contacts! I wore hard contacts until I was about 32 when I discovered that even though my prescription was like -11, I could wear soft contacts. I found these to be much more comfortable than hard contact lenses. There have been times in my life I have been resigned to wearing glasses. Like when I first became a mom and didn't get much sleep. It was nearly im...