Artifacts Presented in Class

Contact Case, The Lex Apartments. Personal photograph by author. 2016.

In the seventh grade I was playing baseball and I realized that I was having a difficult time picking up the ball with my eyes while I was batting. I told my mom that everything looked fuzzy and unclear. My mom decided to make me an appointment with the eye doctor. I went to the eye doctor a couple of days later and got a full examination. The doctor told me that I needed glasses or contacts because I am nearsighted. I chose to get contacts because they are easier to deal with for all of the sports I played. Glasses were too bulky for my liking so I thought contacts would be easier.

The doctor told me all of the different things i had to do in order to keep my contacts in the best shape. He told me I needed to wash them every day with contact solution. I also had to let the contacts soak in the solution overnight. He gave me this contact case to put my contacts in overnight. It has become a necessity to me. Every day I wake up, open my contact case, and put my contacts in. At the end of the day I take my contacts out, clean them, and finally put them in the case to soak over night. This contact case has become part of my daily routine, and it always will be now. Without this case I would not have contacts and I would not be able to see as clearly. It would in turn make me a different person.