palace of winds

For all the contact lens wearers (i.e. those who like to pretend they’re not half-blind without a little help), in case you haven’t heard yet (and many thanks to Bren for actually watching the news): Amo Inc. has recalled its entire Complete Moisture Plus line — that’s the one with the little sun logo, that used to come in the blue bottles with the extra storage compartment in the bottom but now comes in regular sort of bottles, and is priced much more reasonably than Renu and is an all-around lovely solution — except for that whole thing where it increases sevenfold your chance of getting some rare but horrible and potentially blinding corneal infection. You can read their press release pdf here.

They’re doing some kind of return/reimbursement program — there’s a toll-free number to call to leave your contact info, and they’ll send you a kit. If you use this solution you should stop right now, and go to the store (sigh) and find something else to try. (Triple sigh, actually; I just remembered that my Target is under construction and as of Friday I hate it deeply, wrathfully, hate it for being rearranged every time I set foot in there, no matter if I’ve only been outside for five minutes; I hate it for being different and for having over the last year drastically reduced its selection of all the things I want to buy and increased its selection of everything useless; I hate it for its constantly-broken photo machines, and the broken spirits of its employees for that matter; and I hate it most of all for the parking situation right now, which I exaggerate not a whit is far, far worse than any holiday-time parking shortage I’ve ever witnessed. I promised myself that I would express my wrath and frustration by not shopping there until they’re done with construction, but I’m not sure where else to go for contact solution. Woe.)