New Glasses...

Today Kenny and I headed out to Santa Clarita to our local LensCrafters to get new glasses. I haven't gotten new glasses in over three years and Kenny hasn't gotten new ones in over four years. I really didn't expect my prescription to change at all, since I haven't been having any issues with my glasses. But sometimes things are not what the appear to be.

So we got to LensCrafters around 3:30pm and they were packed and I also noticed that they Eye Exam place took their last appointment at 4:20 so I figured we'd have to make appointment for tomorrow but when I asked if there was any chance of getting two appointments today they said yes and booked us for 4pm and 4:20pm. So as we waited we walked around and looked at different frames. It's crazy how expensive frames can be, but we stayed in the $99 area, but were frames there for over $200. A few minutes later a Carlos came up to us and took us both into a back room to do the pre-exam. We answered questions, filled out a form and then he proceeded to do some eye test.. ie. read letters, take pictures of the back of our eye, blow puffs of air in our eyes... not sure how all that works but they are suppose to be able to tell how blind we are by all those tests.

You can read the details of Kenny's eye exam on his personal Blog!

Next was the doctor visit, he puts that thing over your eyes and says.. #1 or #2 over and over and you tell him what's best. That test only take a few minutes and then he tells you what's wrong

Most parts of my eye exam were fine. No damages for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, from the HIV Meds or from having become a borderline diabetic. That certainly was good news! The Opthamologist wanted to take a second sets of pictures since there was something going on in my right eye. They dilated my eyes and we went out to find some frames. After picking out a few we asked Sarah (another associate) which ones she liked on our face and she picked out the two that we liked for ourselves. We paid the bill, I was expecting a $1000 but it was only $600, which isn't bad for two pairs of glasses and the exams.

I went back in for a second set of pictures and a second eye examination and it turns out that I have a cataract on my right eye in the very early stages. I will be taking care of that once I get back to Austria and have the Austrian HMO pay for it.
Not quite sure what it is about turning 40, but apparently I'm slowly falling apart!!