Article June 13, 2011 Issue

My milestone healing

By Savanna Sprague

One night I unexpectedly had to sleep over at the girls’ dorm at my high school for Christian Scientists, The Principia. (I’m a day student but the school also takes boarders.) I wasn’t prepared for this and didn’t have the essentials for an overnight. This was easily fixed when a good friend told me to go to her room and find everything I needed for the night. 

It had been a long day and I was looking forward to going to sleep. So, I quickly found a bottle that I thought was contact solution, poured it into a case, and soaked my contacts in the solution all night. 

The next morning when I went to the hall bathroom to put my contacts back in, I was severely shocked when I put one contact in and my eye started to burn. The solution I had used was a deep contact cleansing solution that was not meant to directly touch the eyes. Warnings on the bottle suggest getting immediate assistance from an eye care professional, with the chance of severe eye discomfort for a possible 24–48 hours. 