Beej - I'm not sure if they have a VisionWorks in your area but that's where I got my glasses. They have various specials depending on what type of frames/lenses. And they had a separate selection of reading glasses.

I have a girly TMI question:

I have had an insanely heavy and painful period this time. It started with really REALLY bad pain and I am still cramping pretty badly on day five. I am still having to change tampons every hour or so. I bled through a tampon last night and all over the sheets, not a pleasant way to wake up (Lucky for me, the DH grew up with two sisters and is rather blase about the whole thing. His reaction was, "Hey, these things happen.") I know I have ovarian cysts--could a cyst bursting cause these symptoms, or is it just perimenopausal fun?

Robin, can you give your doctor's office a call and tell them what's going on? See if they can give you an answer. That just seems really heavy for day 5.

Robin - I would say Perimenopause, but that's based on a very large cyst bursting when I was 15, and I had the immense pain, but only ever had normal periods until the found it. But, I have no idea, but I'll give you very gentle hugs {{{Robin}}}.

Robin, I would definitely call the doctor...just to see if you need to be seen or something. See what they have to say.

No love in a google VisionWorks search. I wonder if they've been bought out...

Consumer Reports rates Costco's prescription glasses highly, and Costco has some reasonable frames.

Thanks! That is a confidence builder.

I have flashbacks, though. Of A.G.E. which was the government employee (read: military) discount store where my father first had my eye's checked. They gave me white with gold flecks, cat-eye glasses with frosted nail polish over the left eye. This was a not!patch attempt to get my right eye (which is the slackiest of slackers) to perform. I was to wear them for two years and then 'go to a special school' to help me relearn how to use my left eye.

They gave me a wicked headache...not to mention the sheer embarrassment...even at 9 years old.

I accidently tossed them into a dumpster behind my school. I figured the beating for 'losing' them was a small price to pay.

Now, I see what incredible damage that little scheme might have done and I'm grateful for that teeny bit of presense of mind.

So. In conclusion...glasses, quite the challenge for me.

chop onions

So funny you should mention this, Jess. I've been chopping a lot of onions lately. I'm sure my technique sucks ass, because it takes a long time, and my wrist hurts when I do it. S never says a word, but I'd be surprised if she wasn't telling me the right way to do it in her head.

It's also possible that our knives need to be sharpened.

Cash, I hope your sister's okay. Daisy, I hope things go better with Mr. Jane.

I wonder how much lenses and frames would be at Target without insurance. Also, I wonder how much an exam costs. S could possibly use some new glasses.

Robin, everyone else has better knowledge and advice, but I can give gentle hugs.

I have flashbacks, though. Of A.G.E. which was the government employee (read: military) discount store where my father first had my eye's checked.

Military glasses are notoriously the ugliest glasses in the world. I can only imagine non-military, government-issue glasses are a narrowly close second.

(Except that, in rereading the very sentence I copied from Beej, it's clear that they were still military, so UGLY!)

Seany- here are some coupons, only a couple would pertain to S. [link]

Also, I remember them being very reasonable. Give them a call.

Yeah, me too. I guess her mom was quite horrible to her about it, saying, "Are you trying to tell me that there are NO moving trucks in the ENTIRE city of Boston?" Um, YES!

Labor Day weekend, and on the first of the month? I don't doubt it for a minute.

I was going to SAY - this person knows nothing about Boston, does she?

Don't worry, it's not much of a college town.

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