Journal
Notes on eyewear.
Care, fit, and the occasional opinion about what a frame is actually doing on your face.
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Getting glasses when leaving the house is the hard part
A licence not renewed, a hip replaced, a winter of icy sidewalks. What happens when the optician comes to you instead.
Glasses for a parent in a care home: what the family needs to know
Who decides, who signs, who pays, and why glasses go missing in care homes so often. A guide for whoever is handling it.
Optician, optometrist, ophthalmologist: who does what
Three professions, three jobs, and a confusion that wastes a lot of people's time. Which one to see, and in what order.
Your prescription: what is on it, and what to do if you have lost it
The numbers and what they mean, how long it stays good, and why a lost prescription is almost never the obstacle people think.
What your vision benefit actually covers, and what direct billing means
Where to look in your plan, what direct billing actually changes, and the three things that surprise people most when the bill comes.
How to actually clean your glasses
Your shirt tail is the problem. Here is the thirty-second method that will not put scratches in a coating you paid for.
Why fit matters more than the frame
A frame that suits you and sits wrong is worse than a plain one that sits right. Where the lens sits changes what you see.
The case for a second pair
Not vanity. One pair doing three jobs is one pair doing all of them at seventy per cent.
What a mobile fitting actually looks like
A case of frames, a kitchen table, and forty-five minutes. Here is the whole thing, start to finish.