Look in the mirror, tilt your head to the side and a little bit back, and put the drop in the corner of your eye closest to your nose. When you blink, the liquid will spread over your eye.
I pull the bottom lid out and to make a “pocket” and put it in there.
@lookingforward , sorry, no. But it sounds fascinating!
@veryhappy I can’t see without the glasses. I am legally blind without my glasses lol
I’m pretty blind without my glasses, but I eventually learned how to put eyedrops in my eye. I tilt my head back, pull the lower lid down to make a pocket, place the dropper above/near the pocket, and put the drop in. It took awhile of getting it on my cheek instead before I figured out exactly where to place the dropper and how far back to tilt my head, but now I’m proficient.
I also have very bad vision. I lie on my back, looking straight up. I get the eye drop dispenser so I am looking straight up at it. Then I look away (moving only my eyeball) and dispense the drops.
I have a similar problem right now of trying to put ointment on a surgical incision at the cheek edge of my ear. It requires using two mirrors to see that area and I’m having the hardest time aiming correctly because everything in the mirror is reversed. I usually end up just dabbing it on by feel, using only one mirror, but I’d rather actually see what I’m doing. There are the added problems of my hand obstructing my view and the light.
Romani, I learned this method years ago when I needed to give eye drops to my young children. Close your eyes. Drop the drops on top of the inner corner of your eye (without touching so you don’t contaminate the dropper), and then blink your eye a few times while tilting your head to get the liquid to flow over your eye. Easy!
We have a [very very old] Mercedes that has an electronic key. Unfortunately the key that DH used went missing about four years ago. Mercedes wanted to charge us something outlandish, like $250, for a new key, so we’ve been doing without. Today I dropped mine – the only remaining one we have!! – in the parking lot at the dog park. When I got back to the car after an hour and a half walk and realized I didn’t have the key, I freaked. Luckily I found it in the parking lot after only a few minutes, but it made me realize we really need to get another key. Since they quoted us $250 a few years ago, people have told me that they quote any old thing they want to, so now I’m thinking of asking them again to see what they say.
DH wonders if some old Mercedes electronic key can simply be reprogrammed to work with our car.
Does anyone know anything about this? We really need another key but we don’t want to spend $250 for it.
Here’s the info about getting a duplicate Mercedes key:
@HImom: Thank you!! Very helpful!! Except for this part:
Holy – cow.
Yes, cards with computer chips and transponders are very expensive for pretty much all brands, sadly. The huge issue is if you only have one key and lose it! I believe it will be much more expensive then. :((
Once again, I went to CVS and bought a bunch of stuff, and forgot to use my extrabucks and coupons. I do that ALL THE TIME (I’m sure they count on people like me). What tricks do you all have for remembering to use random coupons?
@JustaMom5465 Do you have a smart phone? I downloaded the CVS app to my phone and now have all the coupons sent to my phone. The downside (and there’s probably a solution but I haven’t looked yet) is that my husband doesn’t have access to them.
^^^ ooohhh good idea! I think I do have the app. And I’m laughing, because it actually WAS my husband that went to CVS last night…
I put the coupons in my wallet so I see them when I open my wallet.
But on another note – I absolutely hate hate hate the way CVS does their coupons, with the receipts that are five feet long.
I hate that too. There are coupons and deals that you can “send to your card” and then they are visible to the clerk when you check out. You can just log in with your phone number, no need for the card. But the paper coupons on your receipt you have to remember to bring.
To add injury to insult, that kind of “hot paper” can contain the bad stuff that hard plastic water bottles contain. Bpa? I’d rather not have to handle it at all.
Great Halloween costume: http://time.com/4553122/watch-this-man-dressed-as-a-cvs-receipt-go-to-cvs-for-most-meta-halloween-costume/
H went swimming with the Tesla fob (again!) and I couldn’t revive it this time so I’m heading to the service center today. $130 to replace it, which is better than a few years ago when it was $400.
We have a very old vehicle with 240K on it. Key just broke last week. We had the guts and the key part but the casing was broken. The dealer wanted $100 to replace the whole thing (not to bad compared to the pricey, new fangled keys) but I bought a replacement casing on Amazon, put the guts, and it’s better than new. $9.
The only coupon I ever remember to use is $2 off two of my unbelievably expensive pints of ice cream (halo top).
Mr. B superglued the broken casing on his Lexus key… no way he was getting a new key for that geezer of a van, lol.