even more broken

[celticdragonfly]

DAMN! Jamie just broke his glasses. And this time it is indeed BREAK - not only are they bent, and one of the lenses out, the top curve of the metal over one lense actually broke off.

crap crap crap

They say they'd fix anything except losing it. I left them a voicemail asking them to call me. I'm thinking this is going to take a new frame. If I have to BUY a new frame, I want to get them from an optician closer to home.

I do not want to drive to Southlake and back this afternoon. I want to make his eyes better, and have glasses on him as much as possible - but damnit, my sanity needs to be taken into account too. I'll be in that general area tomorrow morning - I think I'll bring them in then. And it might be "drop off the lenses and come back 3 days later" in which case screw it, might as well do it Saturday and avoid so much extra driving.

I was on the phone, he was still in the high chair and bored... you'd think I'd know better. But darn it, I wanted to take a phone call from a friend I don't get to see.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

If you have to buy new ones, do they have any "sport" lenses? I.e., they look a bit like goggles and are held on via a strap, not ear-pieces. I think the lenses are plastic.

Another question, since I'm not sure I've pieced it together enough (and I'm braindead from an extended stint with cleaning the stairs off) -- how vital is it that he have glasses while he's destroying them? (I didn't get mine till I was about 7-8, and while I probably should have had them sooner... (I'd forgotten what airplanes looked like! If I ever knew...) I coped. But I just had myopia.)

Good luck.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

No, he NEEDS them. It's important. We think this is why he was regressing and losing some of the words he'd gained - he was withdrawing from a world he couldn't see. He has been gaining ground since he's been wearing the glasses. It's only 80% of the correction he needs, and it's still a very strong prescription.

The lenses have held up fine, it's just been the frame so far.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out those memory-metal frames? I remember a friend who got them a decade ago - she twisted the frames, one lens 180° from the other, and it popped right back into place.

[tmc4242.livejournal.com]

I have a good friend that used to have the memory metal frames. He was very fond of doing that 180 degree bend demo too. Until the day he did that and the snapped right in half. One of the welds broke on the bridge piece. I'm afraid I laughed out loud when that happened. I had been making metal fatigue jokes since he got them.

Now it may have been way too many cycles that built up to that, but they CAN be broken... :-)

They are very tough though.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D They ought to at least reduce the number of times celticdragonfly has to go get them fixed by a reasonable amount, though. XD

My friend who had them worked on Johnston Atoll doing chemical weapons disposal, and got them after she broke her glasses and her spare pair, and was reduced to wearing her sunglasses to work. Unfortunately, she worked the night shift.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I believe that's about the thing that made the optician suggest we go with these instead. (Well, they originally wanted these TINY little frames with tiny lenses - I insisted on bigger. I don't care if the rectangular ones are more fashionable.)

I'll talk to them again about any better options, especially if we have to replace the frame, but I don't think there are many better options.

[archangelbeth]

I hate the "looking through a teeny cardboard tube" style. I'm not wearing these as a fashion statement, people, I'm wearing these so I can SEE!

Anyway, obligatory rant there.

Good luck, too. I would bring up the suggestions, pointing out that repairing the frames may get a bit tedious, and how many times you've had to trek over there. Hm. Perhaps you could set something up of mailing them over and them mailing it back? It'd take longer, but be less driving.

[estokien.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way about my sunglasses. They are there to keep the sun out of my eyes, if I can see around them they aren't working right.

Of course, this reminds me of the first great thing I noticed about contacts (which I first got when I was trying for competitive soccer), peripheral vision!

I broke a lot of glasses as a kid, my face seems to be made for it. Combine very little bridge on my nose, with a nose shaped like a ski slope and naturally oily skin, oh and a prescription that made for thick lenses. I once breaked too hard on my bicycle and had my glasses go flying and shatter on the pavement. (Shatter-proof apparently did't apply to this particular mode of breakage) Even when I didn't break them, I was pushing them back up my nose every 5 seconds.

So, umm, I agree that tiny lenses are silly for anything but reading glasses.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

What Beth said. Also, maybe you could get a discount by buying them in bulk, say five at a time? This is not cynical, just realistic.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Yeek! They're around $200 a pair! They've fixed them free every time so far.

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

There's always this option:

http://www.royalarmouries.org/extsite/view.jsp?sectionId=2575&assetId=2074

If the glasses are riveted to the helm which is strapped to his head they aren't coming off. :)

On a serious note I agree with either the memory metal frames or the sports goggle types.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Honestly, this pair is what the optician recommended - and the ophthalmologist recommended this place.

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

Kieran breaks his too - a lot! He is with his dad this week, and I've given his dad instructions to get him a new pair, and make it the T-flex ones (that you can twist). I am willing to bet money that his dad will cheap out and get regular frames and stick me with the job of replacing them every two weeks or so.

Kieran hasn't worn his glasses since the summer started. It's going to be hard as heck getting him to wear them again. :( But I didn't have transportation at first to go get him another pair, then I didn't have money. :( I hope his dad doesn't screw up and get the wrong kind.