Optometrist

The children at Imuris love to play with visiting people glasses. As the children would take our glasses and try them out we started noticing that some seemed to be seeing better with them, one of the youth repeatedly tried to buy Kent's glasses. After making this observation and talking with Lilia, it was determined we need to go see the optometrist.

There was an optometrist in Magdalena, that offered free exams so that is where we decided to go. The first trip we made it was Kent and I and seven children. We went after lunch which allowed us to take the youth who were done with school and the kindergartner down. We knew the place was by the bank and I had driven to the bank twice with Lilia, so we figured we could find it. Well we had gone to two different banks, I really thought the second one was not the same and was super confused, so I had no problem taking us to the first bank but we needed the second bank which proved challenging because I hadn't realized it was two different banks. After a couple loops and asking for directions we found it, it was two blocks away from the first bank.

Amidst all the driving in circles J (for security reasons not using his name) had a coughing fit. The poor kiddo coughed so hard he threw up. J managed to lean forward to throw up on the floor, unfortunately since he was sitting in my lap that meant it went all over my legs, purse, and water bottle.

When we found the optometrist office the younger children went racing to the door and crashed into it. Kent then talked to them all about how it was a doctors office and we needed to be calm and behave. After this discussion, we went to enter the building and J, the first one in, tripped on the door jam and sprawled across the floor. He had an open bottle of water which spilled everywhere. It was rather comical to see the receptionist face as we made this grand entrance.  

The next day we went back in the morning and took eight children, the once with school in the afternoon. The visit went much smoother the second go around.

The initial exams were done by the technicians who would determine if they needed glasses or not, those that needed glasses would then need to see the doctor to acquire their official prescription. So on Friday we took the seven who needed glasses, plus two whose initial exams were inconclusive, and two who still needed to be examined, and Lilia (are hero!) and headed back to the optometrist. After all the exams were done the children and youth picked out their glasses.

Everyone in the office did an outstanding job at helping us and getting the children what they needed. That being said 17 exams, 3 trips, 11 pairs of glasses and we are done!