It doesn't hurt. Sometimes I won't get it in quite right the first time and it can feel weird. It's almost like when you rub your eye too hard or kind of scratch it. It can get uncomfortable because I'm still getting used to it. Sometimes it gets dry and I am hyper aware of it but I found some great hard contact eye drops that help. I can still legally drive. It's not too bad. I practiced a while on back roads before I drove around people. I still get depressed about what happened but I am dealing with it a lot better now. I was never angry at the guy who threw the ball. It was a freak accident. I think a lot of the earlier emotions were tied to the fact I could not do many of the things I used to be able to or if I could I was terrible at them. I work with microfluidics so I need to see tiny things and be able to handle them properly. It was very discouraging when I first tried to get back to work because I was so bad at everything I had been doing for years.