{"id":5,"date":"2006-03-02T21:30:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T02:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/?p=5"},"modified":"2007-06-09T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T15:04:03","slug":"new-glasses-how-hard-can-that-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"New Glasses?  How hard can that be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve figured out how to find this place again, I just thought I would tell about my adventures getting my new glasses.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly one month ago, I took my prescription to Dr. Cripe in Goshen to get my new lenses for my glasses.  I had gotten my prescription from Dr. Whitson in Indianapolis.  He is the one who did my cornea transplant.  I called Dr. Cripe&#8217;s office and was assured that it would be no problem to get my lenses there.  I went on over and left my prescription and paid for my glasses.  They took some measurements and I was told they would be ready in about a week.  The next day I received a call that they needed another measurement.  I went back and they took the measurement.  Next week, I received a call that the lenses were there.  I made the appointment to have the lenses put in the glasses, only to be told when I arrived that the lenses had been cut incorrectly.  The new ones would be ready next week.  Next week, I returned only to be told that the lenses were the right shape, but too big!  The next day I received a call that the lab had called and would not cut another lense without my frames.  I left my frames and a few days later received a call that they were ready.  When I returned the call to make an appointment to pick them up, I was told they were booked.  The next day, I picked them up and the gal handed me a paper to sign.  My first words were, &#8220;I can&#8217;t read anything on this paper! I can&#8217;t see it.&#8221;  The gal mumbled something about needing to get my eyese checked again, but that Indianapolis was a long way off to do that.  Maybe I just needed to get used to the new prescripton.  Well, that evening I still could see nothing when I tried to read.  Distance was good.  I peered through the lense to see how they changed because I got none of the glare or reflection that I had on my previous progressive lenses.  There was nothing there! The next day, I called and said there was nothing in the bi-focal part of my glasses.  I took them back to have what I already knew confirmed.  I mentioned that I thought that I should get some sort of refund since it had taken so long and been such a nusience and I had had to buy some reading glasses to get me through the weeks, I was without my glasses.  I was told they would leave a note for Dr. Cripe and my new lenses would be there on Monday.  Monday I had an appointment for my mom at 4:00, so I asked Larry to take my frames down so my glasses would be ready to pick up quickly.  I called late in the afternoon to see if I would have to leave work early, to be told that they were not there and they would call as soon as they arrived.  Wednesday, I received a call that they would be there on Friday and a refund check as well.  Hopefully I will have the correct prescription and they will actually be ready.  It has been one  month to the day since I dropped off the prescription.  The girls in that office made comments about seeing me a lot.  Not my fault!<\/p>\n<p>The good thing is that my vision today is 20\/30 in my eye with the transplant and 20\/25 in the other eye.  I can see in the daylight without my glasses!!  Eighteen months ago, I was counting fuzzy fingers with that eye.  I can drive with no glasses.  I just can&#8217;t read.  The pressure in that eye in 11 or 12.  That is good after using the Pred-Forte drops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve figured out how to find this place again, I just thought I would tell about my adventures getting my new glasses. Exactly one month ago, I took my prescription to Dr. Cripe in Goshen to get my new lenses for my glasses. I had gotten my prescription from Dr. Whitson in Indianapolis. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/?p=5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Glasses?  How hard can that be?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omasblog.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}