[ SECRET POST #2494 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2494 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Noel Fielding, formerly of The Mighty Boosh]


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[American Horror Story: Coven]


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[Once Upon A Time]


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[The Caves of Steel]


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[Steam Powered Giraffe]


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Comments

Re: Venting ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

You sound Canadian like me and just as blind as I am. Even with my "health insurance," I only get $200 every two years to spend on optometrist expenses. At that rate, I can afford to get a new pair of glasses about every six years if I'm careful about which frames I choose, but I can't get the checkups I need to determine my prescription and make sure my eyes are otherwise healthy. Oh, but the $200 doesn't roll over if I don't spend it, so really the "every six years" bit isn't terribly accurate. Thank god for employment income.

Re: Venting ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

I'm Canadian too and have always bought extra insurance for vision and dental (which used to be covered in BC, depending on your income level, but now you have to pay an addition premium for Medicare(!!) out there now), and my lenses are $175 each (yeah I'm blind as a bat and the extra cost is so they won't be Coke-bottle-bottom glasses, like the first pair I ever got were). Now I'm double-insured and only paying half the premium for one set (my employer's), which helps. But I'm still not eligible for new glasses till next year, and will probably end up dropping extra on the frames, too.

I think OP's in the UK though ("socialised") but I agree the CPAPs need to be listed. I think they are here, but you may have to go through a little red tape to apply for one....

Re: Venting ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

My lack of z gave me away XD

We get an electricity rebate for having the machine, at least, which is something. And I might be able to get a rebate if I can prove that it's "medically necessary", but it may not fall under that category since I won't actually die if I don't have it, I'll just feel like crap because I'm not breathing or sleeping right.

Re: Venting ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

Australian, actually! And the problem at the moment is that my eyes are stupidly sensitive so the slightest change in my prescription requirements mean I need new glasses or my migraines get worse. And I have to have six-monthly checkups because I've got a more brittle case of diabetes than most and am prone to eye aneurysms.

$200 doesn't sound like nearly enough for optometrist expenses o_O I'm lucky in that the optometrist I go to bulk-bills so I don't have to pay anything up-front and Medicare takes care of the consultation fees, but paying for the glasses themselves is still expensive because I need a pretty hefty prescription.

Re: Venting ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure what your specific issues are (whether you need something beyond -10 or have a beyond average cylinder or something), but buying glasses online would probably save you a great deal of money in the long run. If you're worried, try buying one super-cheap experiment pair (zennioptical's cheapest frame + lenses deals are around 8 dollars now, I think) and if you're happy with it, that would make keeping up to date on both your prescription and your personal style desires a financial possibility. My insurance covers NOTHING, neither eye-exams nor glasses (apparently, -5 does not "significantly effect my life") so this is pretty much the only way I survive without going absolutely broke.