So I could watch the New York - Green Bay NFC championship game on a real television -- I use my computer monitor on the rare occasions that I actually watch TV-- I went over to Rei's house. He's got a bazillion TVs there. During the game, my contacts started giving me a headache, as they always do when I leave them in all day, so I asked to borrow one of his contact cases and some solution. He said I could.

So I retrieved the bottle of solution from the medicine cabinet, filled up the borrowed case, and plopped my contacts down into it. My contacts were supposed to last me three months, but I've been wearing the same pair for over a year and a half. Hehe.

After the game I went back to the restroom, where the mirror is, and began re-inserting the contacts into my eyes. I always put the right one in first. Always. Everything seemed to go smoothly. The contact adhered to my fingertip, onto my eyeball, and about one second later I began screaming. My eye was on fire. Rei came running in, and he already knew what I had done: I had used the solution which contains peroxide and didn't rinse the contact off before putting it onto my eyeball. Apparently other friends who've borrowed his solution have made the same mistake, not having been forewarned of the contents of his contact solution. It felt like somebody has stuck a hot poker into my eye, and I furiously flushed it with cool water.

The right eye was bloodshot for a couple of days after, as you can see below.