optometry

[da]

I'm a research subject today. Optometry is doing a study on eye-strain, and melted_snowball and I volunteered.

If I don't come back from lunch, I've been eaten by the optometrists.

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[mynatt.livejournal.com]

heh. i used to volunteer for the ones for which they needed colour blind subjects. the people were nice, and i was never eaten for lunch :)

[kraig.livejournal.com]

If you don't come back, let me know.

I volunteered for the same study.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it.

Today, they were nice, and didn't even try to eat my eyes.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

OK. I didn't not come back.

I qualify for the glasses study. (I was a bit worried when they constantly referred to them as 'spectacles' in the email. What is this, 1900? "grammaw, can you hand me my spectacles?")

The first visit lasted two hours, which included an eye exam (which I had to pay for) and choosing new frames (which I do not have to pay for, yay).

Since I'm sure you're curious:

Two weeks from now I go back, and they hand me new glasses. Same perscription, but with some sort of change that might alleviate eye-strain. I wear those for two weeks, then go back. I go back to wearing my old glasses for two weeks. Then they give me a different set of lenses for two weeks, to see if that alleviates eye-strain better or worse than the first set. At the end, I go back, and I get to keep whichever set helped the most.

Plus, they hand me $10 per visit, which almost but not quite pays for the eye exam in the first place.

I hope the glasses don't hurt.

[kraig.livejournal.com]

Yay! I didn't not come back either. As a matter of fact, I got this after I got back. I qualified too, apparently. This will be my first new set of glasses in about 7-8 years. I had to get the eye exam too. Did they squish your eyeball? Mine's still a bit sore from that, I think.

I have to cough up about $40 for my frames, cos I wanted the magnetic sunglass thingies. I forgot to ask them about antireflective coatings, but I emailed her and we'll see.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yes. They squished my eyeball, but it was much more gentle than I expected. I didn't even feel any pressure. The doc called me gun-shy for blinking when he tried putting in the drops. ;)

I would've loved magnetic sunglasses, but I didn't like those frames. Guess I'm due for slightly more expensive custom sunglasses again. But my budget can afford it, since the glasses themselves are free. (woo!)

[kraig.livejournal.com]

I wasn't too sure, but she said they looked better, and since I can't see without my glasses, I took her word for it - guess I'll find out when Linda first sees them. :-)

I found out that the antireflective coating is included anyway.