Vic,
Don't feel useless about the plunger. A friend of mine without KC has worn RGPs since she was 22, and she's always used a plunger for removal... she's never known any other technique.
She's really happy about the safety plungers now available though!
Trying to get used to RGPs
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When working with medicines and chemiclas I plunger I think is quite important from a health and safty point of view.
With a plunger I can get a lens out without the need to remove my gloves and wash my hands at work. This is because the plunger does not necessarily mean you need the eye lids fully apart (it is advisable but not always possible). Just open them enough to get the plunger on.
In my late thirties I have a tremmor on my left hand which was intermittent after many Rugby injuries, but since a car accident 12 months ago it is permanent so not easy putting a lens in when you have a natural tremor and the lens is shaking away and your eye lids are not still. For me it is a case of trying to move my eye to hit a moving target of a lens
With a plunger I can get a lens out without the need to remove my gloves and wash my hands at work. This is because the plunger does not necessarily mean you need the eye lids fully apart (it is advisable but not always possible). Just open them enough to get the plunger on.
In my late thirties I have a tremmor on my left hand which was intermittent after many Rugby injuries, but since a car accident 12 months ago it is permanent so not easy putting a lens in when you have a natural tremor and the lens is shaking away and your eye lids are not still. For me it is a case of trying to move my eye to hit a moving target of a lens
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Hehe Vic that was really funny!!! Taking your glasses off i think does help slightly! LOL!! 
Hopefully Friday will be a good day for you and you can practice. Take it slowly and go back to it when things get too hard. I know that you are stressing about the visual check and that is totally understandable. You can do this though it just takes time and patience, hehe something that nurses and medics do not have!!!
Hopefully Friday will be a good day for you and you can practice. Take it slowly and go back to it when things get too hard. I know that you are stressing about the visual check and that is totally understandable. You can do this though it just takes time and patience, hehe something that nurses and medics do not have!!!
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