Monday morning, I awoke early, and departed the rest area after putting a few drops in my eyes. The SK border was just moments away. Chilly night, likely down to about 2 or 3 celsius. I had the heater on.

After crossing into SK, my eyes felt a bit funny. I blinked. Once. And that’s when it all went blurry.

Not just one, but BOTH of my contacts were out. O my word - what am I going to do now? I could make out the rough outline of he road in front of me, and knew there was a shoulder. I reached over and put the hazard lights on, and then slowly and carefully pulled onto it as best I could. A semi passed by a moment later. I put the e-brake on and sat back in the seat. I stretched out my left palm and placed the contact that was on my cheek there, and went felt around for the other, which had falen towards the seat.

I now had two contacts in my hand, and no vision to speak of.

Rat tat tat… someone is at my window. Huh? Hey, are you okay? I thought maybe you ran out of electricity.

Uhm, sure, I’m okay. My eyes fell out. (Do you happen to have a spare socket?)

Humoured now, I struggled to get one contact lined up enough to insert into my right eye. I was able to get them both in and then got out of the car and laughed for at least three minutes.

(I was born with cataracts, and as a result, my contacts are +18 in strength - so you can imagine how well I see without them.)