Glasses Fiasco

On June 5, 2008 - Alex got glasses. Oh what an adventure it has been...

First, to find an eye doctor who is willing and capable to test a child with Autism was way more difficult than I imagined. Considering the Autism rate in NJ is 1 in 94, I really didn't anticipate I would have trouble finding a capable eye doc. I finally found one in Dr. Turtell - however, had to pay out of pocket since he was not on my husbands health insurance plan.

ChaChing $$$ Cha Ching$$

At the recommendation of several friends with kids who have glasses we got him a pair of the titanium glasses that can be bent in every direction and are mostly unbreakable and use a sports strap to hold it onto his face. Since his good glasses were relatively expensive I turned online to order him spares and some prescription sunglasses.

I found everything I needed to know in ordering glasses online at the Glassy Eyes Blog. I ordered him some spare glasses from Zenni Optical and also a pair of Sunglasses from Goggles 4 U(read my Goggles4u review here). Unfortunately his first pair of G4U sunglasses got broken at while he was at Camp. So, I ordered a second pair of sunglasses - this time titanium ones from Zenni that are doing quite well. Yesterday his pricey glasses (pictured above) didn't come home from school and after exchanging notes with the teacher and talking to the bus driver - they have gone missing in action. So he has to wear his spares from Zenni until hopefully the "good" ones resurface. I'm irritated that they got lost at school, and of course - it had to be the expensive ones that went missing.