Looking at labs: Getting the right fit for your eyes

Me and contact lenses go back a long way – 45 years in fact. When I arrived at university in 1972 as a myopic 18-year-old I am not even sure I had heard of contact lenses. I had been wearing glasses since late primary school, having migrated from the back to the front of the classroom until I gradually accepted that I was squinting to see the blackboard.

But I was also sporty, increasingly so at secondary school, playing club football and school rugby regularly. So my curiosity was peaked during my first winter at University of Kent at Canterbury when I saw a notice on campus for a contact lens trial aimed at students.