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By: Woulda Coulda Shoulda » Contacts and kitties and baths, oh my!

Woulda Coulda Shoulda » Contacts and kitties and baths, oh my! — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:29:51 +0000

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By: PandaWriter

PandaWriter — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:49:58 +0000

In order for me to get contacts, I need two exams. One exam and prescription for my glasses, which the insurance covers. And then a separate exam and prescription for my contacts, which I have to cover (unless I don’t get any glasses, in which case they’ll cover the contacts). Yeah, I don’t get it either. For whatever reason, they’re two different prescriptions as far as my insurance and eye doctors in Los Angeles have been concerned. Which is why I don’t get to have contacts any more. Wahhhhhh!

Add to that I’m blind as a bat, and look horrible in glasses… and trying to pick out eye glass frames when your face is wider than it is tall and you can’t see the mirror without your glasses on is torture. Without the option of throwing in a pair of contacts before I try on frames, I’m stuck depending on the kindness of the eyeglass store clerks. Who think Ernie’s “My Three Sons” eye glass frames are a good look. Shudder.

By: Flea

Flea — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:16:11 +0000

GAH!!!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:13:50 +0000

Not sure if they have it down there, but you can take your regular prescription to Target Optical and get fitted for contacts- costs about $75 up here. It’s basically the same thing- I told them the type/brand I was interested in, and tried a couple sample contacts til we found the best fit, then they gave me a script for those.

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:51:46 +0000

A little something that might help for next year, make her appt. for a contact lens exam rather than a glasses exam. They cost a little more (who knows why, maybe the extra math to figure out the RX?!??!), but she will leave with an acutal contact lens RX and then ask for an RX for glasses too. This is what I do and it usually works out.

By: Brigitte

Brigitte — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:46:52 +0000

Ugh, I completely hate even short, to-the-point phone calls. I have to mentally rehearse my end of the conversation and work myself up to it for at least a few days. Perhaps I’m a tad phobic. ;-)

Thank goodness I’m not down in the South!

By: Nicki

Nicki — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:32:02 +0000

See, you seem shocked and amazed. This seems pretty standard to me. For us, it happens ALL THE TIME. We have come to expect it. Welcome to the club. Or in this case, hop in, my nightmare is still warm!

;)

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:32:18 +0000

I ditto Ani re your awesomeness, as I too use Zenni. 3rd time ordering and I’m over the top with happiness at the money I save. Thank you thank you, sweet Mir.

Maybe just asking the receptionist to have local OD call you directly would be fruitful. The dr.s may have an easy solution. The Laurel & Hardy suggests….well, just talk to someone else.

Today my 10 yr old and I dashed in the grocery for an after school bagel before piano lessons. She selected her bagel from the single serve bin in the bakery, and I asked for cream cheeses. She told me to cross the store to the dairy department. I said, “Wha? That doesn’t make sense. Oh here they are, this is what I meant” and I showed the case below her register filled with assorted single serve cream cheese. “Oh, I’m brand new.” Me: “I bet you don’t eat bagels” Her: “No.” Just sayin. The concept was foreign to her. Talk to someone else.

Oh, and you really flexed your writing muscle today! I followed that perfectly. Wow.

By: mom, again

mom, again — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:04:14 +0000

I got emergency new glasses just before moving last year, because my toddler broke mine. so, I’ve been figuring I’d take that prescription multiply it by the new insurance & get what I’ve always wanted: prescription sunglasses! It seems easy enough, but now I’m worried.

By: Mare

Mare — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:38:35 +0000

Are you sure you live in Georgia and not in TN? I worked at a gas station once and people were always coming in and asking me, “Do you know what time it it?” (huge clock on the wall, mind you. Digital too!) I’d look at my watch and tell them, “Yup.” They’d get all confused. Or if they’d ask if the bathroom is free, I’d tell them, “Nope, it will cost you a dollar.” I made 15 bucks in a day once! (jk)

Keep faith. Someone out there in the south (blanket generalization that does not apply to you if you’re smart, which you are because you read this blog of Mir’s or write it) has to know something, although I doubt that. I sincerely doubt that.