Give me your horror stories
We all have patients who have a stigmatism, and who just opened the case and they were like that. I need more than that. Give me your juiciest gossip, your dumbest wtf moments, your “this one time” stories.
I’ll go first, cause I got a new one.
My last patient today brought in a pair of glasses that he wanted me to check because it was his first progressive & he was “having trouble getting used to them.”
I asked for his script. Od +1.25 -0.25x135, Os balance, +1.75 Add. I took a quick height & pd, then held his glasses up to mark the lenses. It had a left lens cut into the right side. It also had a left lens on the left side, but that didn’t really matter. The add was marked as +2.50. I didn’t even get them into the vertometer, I just started laughing. He told me he had ordered them online (surprise, surprise!) and that he had guessed the numbers (based on the cheaters he was using for distance & near), when inputting the rx & pd on whatever website he used.
I handed them back to him, and then we got to work on making better life choices.