posted on November 4, 2006 04:04:10 PM
Glassgrl, I am sure the Dr Will is excellent but Baltimore has the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins which is very famous and about as good as it gets. I have a friend in Memphis who comes here to see eye doctors because they have such great reputations.
Edited to add... I would very much like to meet McJane!
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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posted on November 4, 2006 06:42:32 PM
I got another opinion. I found a pediatric specialist in double vision and she gave me a prescription that works around the problem. I guess I could shop for a doctor who would agree to have my other eye operated on right now but I am not particularly fond of surgery. When the time comes I will look for another surgeon.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on November 4, 2006 08:03:17 PM
I love Pepper Pot soup & DO know what's in it & still eat it. I don't know what's in Scrapple & don't want to because I love it.
Another strange Philly food that you don't ask about, just enjoy.
Bookbinders, one fantastic place to eat, but H&H Automat was always my favorite. I would make a meal out of their baked beans & home fries & chocolate whipped cream cake for dessert.
I remember the ceiling well, I remember the walls with all the "no smoking" signs & yet ash trays on every table so people could smoke! gosh I remember everything about that place. It was the first place I wanted to go when I was in center city. I miss it.
Think I told you this before, but the Horn & Hardart Automat on Market Street was famous, so much so that when it closed it was reconstructed & put on permanent exihibition at the Smithsonian in DC. I stop in & see it everytime I go there.
I would rather it be back on Markrt Street though.
I remember seeing the H&H automat in a movie. Victor Mature was in it & when he was broke he would go to H&H, get a cup of hot water, add catsup salt & pepper & make free cup of soup.
Can't remember the name, I think Jean Simmons was in it too.
Maybe you can move away from Philly, but a little of it always stays with you.
Oh Yeah! Do I LOVE Scrapple -- just about the least PC food one can eat! I used to slice THIN & fry it up & cover with MAPLE SYRUP! Drool! YumYum! Great fun as you can actually HEAR yer arteries GLOG UP while yer eating it
Remember: "More PARK'S sausages, Mom!"
Remember Taylor Pork Rolls at the shore?
Remember Captain Starns -- I used to expand my shell collection after every visit...
Remember Dell Ennis Bowling Alley -- the first automatic pin setters in the area? I grew up very close to there and Willow Grove Park was just around the corner from us...
Remember going to LIT BROTHERS for EASTER clothes?
posted on November 5, 2006 03:40:42 AM
here's his response:
"HI Glassgrl,
Sorry for the late response.
I can spend some time to respond to any specific questions, did not have time to go thru the entire blog of yours. Very interesting people.
Just to clarify some myth:
1. Traditional stores don't recommend rimless because they cannot make them on the spot (one hour service), they have to send them to a lab and have customers wait a couple of weeks and they make less money. Believe it or not. It is all about money and I am sick of dealing with a lot of local stores and I heard constantly how my customers are ripped off badly by local stores. Some doctors are good, but the percentage is declining for sure.
2. We have done some very thick lens using rimless frames. The result is customers have never felt so relieved before as they have to carry so much on their nose, and their face don't know how to smile anymore. Now they can and they feel good even in the evening after a whole day of wearing glasses. This has never been experienced by many.
3. We are full service lens lab so no matter what your prescription is, we can find the right lens for you. By the way, we are ISO9001 certified and we supply some of the largest chains in Asia.
4. Our price is Walmart price, but quality is better than local stores, as we use heavy duty state-of-the-art machinery because we are a volume lab. Local stores cannot match with us in terms of quality.
OK, the best way is to try our service and let our service speak for itself. What are you going to lose? If you are not sure, try the basic package which starts at $49 for rimless frames that include hi-index 1.56 lens with AR, UV, and scratch guard coatings. Try to get that from anywhere in the world.
Anyway, say hello to all your friends and nice to meet you in cyberspace."
posted on November 5, 2006 07:07:13 AM
I give up tom. what's the answer?
oh I got it. it's the UV coating. that's the scam.
anyway - I think the point he was trying to make was that you can't get rimless glasses for $49.00 from Walmart. And if you did buy glasses from Walmart - they'd try to sell you the coatings too, for extra $$.
posted on November 5, 2006 08:22:21 AMAR COATINGSmust be the last coating applied to a lens in order for the AR coating to work...
Logic tells ya thus that an "anti-scratch" coat is silliness since it must be UNDER the AR coating...
GG: Unlike GLASS and POLYCARBONATE lenses, PLASTIC lenses have NO inherent UV protection. So, it is particularily important when making RX sunglasses with PLASTIC LENSES that a UV coating be applied...That's because, when yer eyes are behind a SUNGLASS, yer pupils DILATE, thus allowing a greater amount of UV rays to enter than normally would happen without the sunglasses...
One of the reasons that cheap, drugstore,plastic NON-RX, Non-UV protected, sunglasses are dangerous to eye health...
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Eyeglass manufacturers, retailers, and advertisers have long been delivering alarming messages about the damaging effects of ultraviolet light on the eye--so much so that many eyeglass wearers pay as much as $25 extra for a UV-blocking coating for their lenses.
But you probably don’t really need it. Even without a UV coating, all types of clear-plastic prescription lenses block the most dangerous part of the UV spectrum, UVB, which can cause cataracts, or the clouding of the eye’s lens. Polycarbonate, high-index, and Trivex plastic lenses also block almost all of another type of ultraviolet radiation, UVA. Only CR-39 plastic lenses allow a significant part of the UVA spectrum to reach the eye. While there’s been some speculation that UVA might contribute to macular degeneration, a deterioration of the retina that can lead to blindness, researchers now believe that the lens and cornea of the eye prevent UVA rays from reaching the retina. Still, Gregory Good, a professor of clinical optometry at the Ohio State University College of Optometry, recommends that you get it on CR-39 lenses just to be safe.
PLASTIC LENSES do NOT block UV unless coated! CLASS & POLYCARBONATE lenses, by their very nature, block out UV rays...
And, with SUNGLASSES, it is especially important that the lenses block out UV -- with PLASTIC, this involves a coating...
I was very happy with FACTORY INSTALLED brand-name coatings for SCRATCH RESISTANCE...
I was VERY UNHAPPY with AR coatings because:
1)EXPENSIVE
2)DIFFICULT TO CLEAN
3)EASILY SCRATCHED
I was very UNHAPPY with laboratory-applied (in-house) coatings of any kind except for UV & TINTS which usually came out OK.
As with all purchases, do research befor paying oodles for extras which may be MEANINGLESS WASTES OF MOOLA, such as...AR COATING OVER AN ANTI-SCRATCH COATING (duh? duh!)
posted on November 5, 2006 01:06:26 PM
Frieends & family may be embarrassed to be seen with me when I wear them but nobody will keep me from my fisherman's sunglasses! Everytime I put them on, it's like a back-rub for my eyes!
posted on November 5, 2006 01:11:08 PM
I got a pair at Costco with AR,now it is scratched and worthless.
The solution they sell you on TV does not work.
Tom,
how much are they making with those designer frames?
OF COURSE, there is a nice profit margin in frames -- much better than the lenses, which is why add-ons are pushed.
Generic/no-name frames I could have purchased by the bag for $1-$3 each. But I couldn't bring myself to offer such trash...
My favorite FRAME company was MARCHON (Marcolin) as they were excellent quality & they always worked with me & gave me a good deal
My least favorite was Tura, because they were very expensive & they were constantly discontinuing lines on me & then cutting the price...Thus, if I bought a frame for $60 one day, it might be offered on "SALE" 6 mos later for $10 -- YIKES!
My mark-up (remember, this is over 6 years ago) was 2X WS LIST + $10 and I was considered extremely inexpensive...IOW: if I purchased a frame for $30, I sold it retail for $70...
posted on November 5, 2006 05:48:07 PM
glassgrl, clicked on Tom's link for Wills Eye & found a list of email links. Sent an email to the cornea link & already got an answer. I was advised to make an appointment & see a specialist. Should I make one for photo
Tom I remember them all & still eat Taylors Pork roll on a kaiser roll with relish & probably eat way too much scrapple. Never could make up my mind if I liked syrup or catsup on it so I would fry 4 thin slices, of course, & put syrup on two & catsup on two.
I was raised in a very small town called Yeadon & it's quite a ways from Willow Grove, but I've been to the park many times. Do you remember the name of the other amusement park. I can't come up with it.
posted on November 5, 2006 06:12:14 PM
I'm so sorry McJane - I should have asked you before I invited photo to come over
it's like I just moved in or something
I hope you're still liking your new house
do I have to eat scrapple? OMG! of course we eat GRITS down here and ya'll probably think that's disgusting! I even eat grits eggs and ketchup all at the same time!
DO KEEP US POSTED and let us know what they (Will's) say!
posted on November 5, 2006 07:12:10 PM
Does that mean I am uninvited? Mcjane, hope you do go to get checked out at Wills. Eyes are so important!
I seem to be coping with my current condition using the present prescription. It has been more than 3 years and the catarct on my left eye is still small. At this point I will just hold on till it needs the surgery.
Hope things work out well for you.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
