Contact Scare

I just had a scare that I lost my contact in my eye. Sunday night, after a long day of filming, I came home and my eye was itching out of control. You may not know this about me, but I'm slightly addicted to rubbing my eye when it itches. For some reason, once I start rubbing, it is almost impossible for me to stop. Being exhausted must have caused me to forget that I was wearing contacts. Normally, when I'm wearing my contacts and my eyes itch, I have a delicate way of rubbing my eye. This eye rub was FAR from delicate. I attacked my eye like someone would if s/he had been handcuffed for years with a major itch and couldn't scratch. The rub must have lasted a good five minutes, and it felt euphoric. Later that evening, I headed to the bathroom to take my contacts out, and I couldn't find the one in my left eye. I looked in the mirror and didn't see anything. I was calm about it. I figured that I would go to bed, and when I woke up in the morning, the contact would resurface. Guess who's theory did not come true!

Today, when I woke up and my contact was still "lost", I started to get a little nervous. Mind you, it has now been TWO days since the contact went missing. I was sitting in class thinking that if someone else told me this happened to them, my first question would be, "Have you seen a doctor?" So then I began to get paranoid that my contact was lost behind my eye and become infected and I would lose my eye. I asked my Cinematography teacher to look up optometrists in the area. I called one and he said that it was impossible for my contact to go behind my eye, and if it was "lost" under the lid, then I would know. Psshh. What does an optometrist know? So I googled it, "Can a contact be lost in your eye?" And do you know what google said? The same thing as the other guy. CRAZY! But just to be on the safe side, I will be flushing my eye out with eye drops again.