Re: Chemical nastiness (poke in eye/contacts)

[byard pidgeon <bluedove@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are there any common problems with wearing contact lenses in the darkroom?

I've never been able to tolerate contacts, and always felt a little safer
with glasses. (made it almost impossible to poke myself in the eye, like
Gary does...sorry, couldn't let it pass)



on 12/29/2001 10:29 PM, Arthur Entlich at artistic@ampsc.com wrote:

> now, now, byard ;-)
> 
> Having been a contact lens wearer (both hard and soft), one has to poke
> oneself in the eye to put either type in, and with the soft, also to
> remove them, so I understand trying to keep one's hands relatively clean.
> 
> Art
> 
> 
> 
> byard pidgeon wrote:
> 
>> Gary, if you have a tendency to poke yourself in the eye, I don't
> think the
>> gloves will help much.
>> Perhaps a belt around your arms and torso would help, so you couldn't
> reach
>> your eyes?
>> 
>> on 12/27/2001 06:22 PM, gary at gsellani@accesscom.com wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I don't have skin rashes, but I use gloves for virtually anything
> messy, the
>>> reason being I wear contact lenses and don't like to spend hours
> getting my
>>> hand clean enough to poke myself in the eye.

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