Is it really worth it?

So I went back to the optometrist this morning and told her that I didn't want these monthly lenses. She tried to do the hard sell and blabbed on about how much they're better for my eye health but I just told her rather bluntly, 'The past two weeks have been really uncomfortable.'

She had another look at my eyes and I don't know if this was some sort of punishment for not following her advice but, with my head resting in the opthamological vice and the super bright light shining into my eyes, she says, 'I'm just going to invert your eyelids.'

Yes, that is as uncomfortable as it sounds.

Then I was attacked with the cardboard strip again. This time I had a look to see what it was because I was especially intrigued when she said, 'You'll just have to sit for a minute before you put your lenses back in otherwise they'll stain yellow.'

Right.

(by the way, I did say to her 'those cardboard strips are WRONG!')

Anyway, these are what those strips are... in case you want to use them to torture anyone.

FLUORETS* (strips)
PROPRIETARY NAME(and dosage form):FLUORETS* (strips)
COMPOSITION:Each paper strip is impregnated with approximately 1 mg of fluorescein sodium
PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTION:Fluorets stain corneal and conjunctival abrasions or ulcers a bright green and foreign bodies are surrounded by a green ring.Loss of substance in the conjunctiva is indicated by a yellow stain.
INDICATIONS:For use in detecting corneal abrasions and foreign bodies in the eye, in applanation tonometry, in assessing the patency of the nasolacrimal duct and in contact lens fitting procedures.
CONTRA-INDICATIONS:Hypersensitivity.
DOSAGE AND DIRECTIONS FOR USE:Pull the tabs apart at the right-hand end of the envelope and withdraw the Fluoret. Moisten the tip with tear fluid from the lower fornix, sterile water, or sterile saline, and gently stroke the Fluoret across the conjunctiva. For best results, the patient should blink several times.
SIDE EFFECTS AND SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS:Each applicator should only be used once and then discarded. Care should be taken to handle the strips by the non-impregnated end only.
IDENTIFICATION:A lint free, narrow paper strip with an orange-coloured tip.
PRESENTATION:Sterile, individually wrapped paper strips, packed in gravity-feed cartons of 100 strips.

At the end of my visit, I kindly asked the optemetrist to write out my contact lens and spectacle prescriptions as I will not be back. I didn't say that last part tho.

Weak.