Contact Lense Solution Crisis

Part and parcel of adapting in a new city is finding places to get certain services or products.

My right lense is occasionally irritating my eyes recently and I ran out of a Boston cleaner that I could easily buy from Guardian or any other optical shops back home. For more than two weeks here in Miri, I checked every pharmarcy and optical shop that we passed by when we went shopping or makan and I was very disappointed to find out that they only stocked solutions for soft contact lenses. Does that mean everyone in this city is wearing soft contact lenses?

Mine are semi-hard lenses and I have been wearing them since I was 15 therefore I need a solution for rigid gas permeable contact lenses. I was almost giving up after my nth time of asking and sms-ed sis to courier to me. Thing is there are many many optical shops in Miri, but none had the solution I was looking for! Augustine told me not to give up and so we continued checking the many optical shops at Imperial Mall yesterday and finally I found one (it is probably the one and only!) selling it! In fact, the optometrist told me Boston now has a new all-in-one solution. Thank God for the discovery! My right lense is now OK after I started using the solution. The optometrist confirmed that she can also make new semi-hard lenses and I am very relieved to know that if I need to urgently make a new lense for my right eye, I can do it here in Miri ;-)

I've been seeing the same specialist back home all these years, although the specialist recommends that I use a particular solution and protein removers on a monthly basis, I recently realised the Boston solution was a better choice for me.


Carmen