put this in your eye!

as i sat in the optometrist office having drops put in my eyes, lights flashed at my cornea and telling him whether the first or second image was clearer on the eye chart...this popped into my mind....

who in the world was the first person to put in a contact lens? some comes up to you and says, "Here, put this piece of plastic in your eye." Who would want to say yes to that!

To get the complete history of the contact lens, you can actually visit the website www.contactlenscouncil.org and see an entire historical account, however it does not name the first brave soul to actually sick it in their eye.

For the inquiring minds, i thought some of this contact trivia would be of interest:

1508- Leonardo da Vinci (did he invent everything?) actually had sketches and descriptions of contact lenses

1929- Dallos, a hungarian physician figured out how to make molds of the eye (yuck!) to be able to fit a contact lens perfectly on the eye

1936- 1st american produced plastic contact lens

1971- Soft contact lenses take america by storm....can you believe it was that long ago, before i was born!

these are just a few interesting things to note. like i said check out the website to get the full history...truly eye popping (ha ha)

in the end, there is someone out there that was the first guinea pig (hopefully not literally) to try on a contact lens. to you i say thank you for having the courage to say yes to something that i still today am hesitant to attempt on a daily basis