I'm sorry you're hurting, and that sucks about your glasses. I understand about not being able to afford what you need to be able to see. My glasses are so super expensive, like $800 or something. Even our good vision insurance doesn't want to cover all of it. Some years, like this year, I've just gone in and gotten only contact lenses because they are cheaper. I have extremely bad eyesight, -10 for contact lenses in each eye; it runs in my family, and it it looks like my daughter is unfortunately following the trend. But I have to have glasses that let me see well enough to drive and function (because with eyes this bad, there is not much functioning beyond taking a bath & washing my hair I can do). One year, I got a scratched cornea. No idea what happened, but the eye doc's best guess was it was spring, very bad pollen was all around (yellow pollen from the flowers, trees, bushes), and I likely got a bit of pollen under a contact lens, scratching the cornea. I think I had to wear glasses for 3 weeks or so until it healed.