>(I'm thinking that it would be great to get the word out to school nurses >about online glasses, for students that need glasses but don't have them due >to cost.)<
Actually, I wrote up two versions of How To Buy Glasses on the Internet (the non-computer-user version and the familiar-with-online- shopping version) to give to my mother, who is a school nurse in a lower-income school. It's kind of intended for parents to buy a spare pair for the kids who break them all the time, but still. Yeah, I originally started buying glasses on the internet because I didn't have health insurance, nor $500 to shell out on a pair of glasses. I got a decent pair (from G4U) that lasted me a year and a half, and while they aren't optically perfect, they were definitely good enough. Because of online glasses shopping, I also have a pair of really-cheap- but-worth-every-cent prescription sunglasses. I wore them on a boat on my honeymoon. If they fell in the Atlantic ocean, I wasn't going to cry too hard. If I dropped my $400 pair (if I had a $400 pair, which I don't), I'd be really mad. Of course, even if I could afford designer glasses, I probably wouldn't. (I also have a twenty or thirty-year-old bike.) But to the OP -- check your privilege, ok? Just because you can afford full-price glasses, or that you have a job that provides nice vision insurance, doesn't mean that any of the rest of us do. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://www.glassyeyes.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
