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Glasses, Lasik and Did I Just See That?
Ever wondered how a visit to Costco for new glasses can spark a journey through the whimsical world of eye care and vision correction? Join us as we recount Robyn's adventure in picking out new specs, leading to an amusing yet informative discussion on the joys and challenges of aging eyesight. We explore various eyewear options, from progressives to budget-friendly alternatives like Zenni, and share personal stories, including my son's unique experience with the Gentle Vision Shaping System (GVSS) and my own roller-coaster ride with LASIK surgery—complete with some unexpected and hilarious twists.
But that's not all! Prepare to be entertained by a series of nostalgic and laugh-out-loud moments from our past. Imagine the chaos of a lake house mishap involving a lost pair of glasses, or the quirky challenge of driving a stick shift in an emergency. We even encountered a woman casually strolling down the street with a parrot on her shoulder—yes, you read that right! From eye-opening vision tests to the unexpected quirks of daily life, our stories weave together humor and heart, leaving you both chuckling and reflecting on life's unpredictable adventures. Tune in for a lighthearted blend of practical eye care tips and delightful anecdotes that promise to keep you engaged from start to finish.
Welcome to hey Real Quick y'all. What do we got?
Speaker 2:So I think we're going to talk about the eye doctor today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Robin just went to the eye doctor.
Speaker 2:Oh, really At.
Speaker 1:Costco Shocker.
Speaker 2:Okay, tell me about that real quick.
Speaker 1:Well, she Her readers. Which that just hit me, because I used to give her a hard time. I was like yeah, you're overdue.
Speaker 2:She's always like can you read this for me?
Speaker 1:I'm like man, your eyes are horrible. And then lately the boys will be like you know, hey dad, can you do this or whatever, and I have to like focus on something. And I'm like it happened in, like a week yeah. I was like I can't see either.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I have to like hold it way back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, take however many pills of this I guess you think you need, because I'll never know.
Speaker 1:I can't see it. Yeah, just take them till you feel better. Just kidding.
Speaker 2:So did she get progressives.
Speaker 1:I think so, but yeah, dang it, I didn't pay attention.
Speaker 2:Man.
Speaker 1:But yeah, she had to get new glasses. Okay, yeah, so I guess apparently I'll have to go. I just get the little pack ones that for a while.
Speaker 2:A while meaning about six, seven years. And then I got progressives, that I got off of amazon which have no prescription at the top and then have magnification at the bottom. But then there's a little bit where you're like you can only hold a menu so far out, and then you're like but do you also have trouble seeing six to eight feet away? So there's like a tiny bit of prescription at the top and then magnification. But I went to Wabi Paka.
Speaker 1:I thought that was online.
Speaker 2:It's online, but there's a couple stores in Nashville and I like to say Wabi Paka.
Speaker 1:Is it expensive or is it?
Speaker 2:cheap, it's cheaper. It's cheaper than going to a normal eye doctor or eyeglass place. However, if you get the progressives, nothing's cheaper right, because they progressively gets more expensive.
Speaker 1:Do you want?
Speaker 2:glare? No, I don't who says yeah, I know, do you want this? Do you want, do you want pinpoint progressives which are more like you have to get used to, like looking at straight in the middle of the there's too many there's too many add-ons. It was not as cheap as I wanted it to be. Yeah, great service. Warby parker, great service. However, yeah, I don't know. I might check out costco. This is like an ad now, but I have a friend who gets theirs from Zennicom Z-E-N-N-I.
Speaker 1:You say so.
Speaker 2:Anytime somebody wants to pay me, that's great, and apparently you just put in the specs and then you order them. But I'm like if you get it all prescriptioned up and then you don't like them, how's that working? Yeah, I like to try them. How's that working?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like to try them on.
Speaker 2:It's like a car. I'm not going to order that online. I want to test drive one.
Speaker 1:I mean I'll order it online, but I'm going to send it back.
Speaker 2:Right, but if they already got your stuff in your lenses, anyway. So I will have to talk to her. But I went to the eye doctor with my oldest son because he was overdue, because he wears the get ready.
Speaker 1:I thought he had contacts.
Speaker 2:He does, he has.
Speaker 1:Oh, you still got to go to the eye doctor. Yeah, hello.
Speaker 2:Hello, he's 21 and he has the GVSS gentle vision shaping system which he's had for like GVSS, yes, so it's like a it's contacts's contacts, hard contacts that you sleep in so it holds the shape of your eye, kind of like a retainer. Hold your teeth, because the curvature, I guess, of your eyes will help what makes the eyesight change, and so they get it just right and fine-tune all things. So when he takes them out in the mornings it's 20, 20 vision.
Speaker 1:So wait a minute. He has 20, 20 vision for the day.
Speaker 2:Pretty much like toward the end of the day, like his eyes might get tired, and the reason we did that is because his eyesight was declining pretty quickly and he would have ended up with a really strong prescription or really thick glasses, and this would also keep him from doing that and maybe make him a candidate for LASIK at some point, which he did that right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had LASIK or LASIK.
Speaker 2:Or however you want to say it, lasik, I don't know.
Speaker 1:However, you want to mispronounce it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which I can't believe you did that. I can't either. You're doing like a blood test and you're not really asleep.
Speaker 1:No, you are the opposite of asleep you are wide awake.
Speaker 2:I don't understand and my eyes hurt right now thinking about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't believe I did it.
Speaker 2:I thinking about it. Yeah, I can't believe I did it.
Speaker 1:I mean it was great, because Did they give you something Like to?
Speaker 2:take the edge off.
Speaker 1:No, they don't give you squat, you just go. No, yeah, it's what used to be expensive.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Now it's cheaper, which would make me more nervous, something like that. They're like oh, you're going to touch my eyeball with a laser oh, you're going to touch my eyeball with like a laser. Yeah, you're going to use a laser on my eyeball. You know what I'm going to go with the highest price point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because didn't you go to like the person in Atlanta? He?
Speaker 1:was. They all say that, but he was supposed to. Everybody's like he does. Yeah, he does Everybody. I'm like well, I mean, I'm not throwing touchdowns, or Right, I don't play for the atlanta braves, but yeah, I'm not hitting home runs for the braves, but yeah, I'd still like to know where I'm going. Um, but yeah, I went and then you just sit in this room and there's, like I don't know, five, ten people there that's a lot of people, I guess.
Speaker 1:I don't know I guess he only worked like one day or something like he'd come in for like one day and then he'd go to another place. So like they got five or ten people in there and then they're like all right, everybody ready, or whatever.
Speaker 2:I guess, so Y'all holding me down. What's happening yeah?
Speaker 1:What are we doing? And we go back there and they lay you down. So you lay down on like a little table or whatever. Yeah, kind of like you're at a hospital. They don't strap you down or anything I don't think so. But they got something that like steadies your head you know, kind of like I'm already getting nervous.
Speaker 2:Okay, go ahead. Yeah, I was nervous, but there's multiple people laying down and then he just what not on the same table that is, line you up like you're in the officeodontist I'm laying down and there's a table over here Somebody else is laying down.
Speaker 1:It doesn't take long at all. It takes maybe like I have a horrible memory, but I think he does Each person it takes like a minute or two.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, this is like an eye doctor relay game or something 9.75, 10 surgeries in 12 minutes. Yeah, this sounds wrong.
Speaker 1:But I don't know, maybe it took him longer than that. It's not long so you're all laying there. And then the next thing you know, your little, your bed or whatever you're laying on, just kind of moves Boom To like right over to him. It's like a lazy susan of contestants to get their eyes operated on and so he pulls you over and you're like bam, you're next and he's like all right, how you doing. I'm like could?
Speaker 1:be better, but um not great right now yeah, I'll let you know in about five minutes. So the scariest part is they say, okay, just look straight ahead and uh, and then right before they do it well, first of all they did it on both eyes, obviously.
Speaker 2:I got something to say about that in a hot second Hold on so once they do the first eye.
Speaker 1:That's kind of scary. Yeah, but you're like I gotta do this again.
Speaker 2:I'm 30% in yeah.
Speaker 1:But the kicker is they don't tell you any of this in the lead up. You know I'm saying it's just like oh well, yeah, we'll schedule it for saturday or whatever day it was right, you just show up yeah.
Speaker 1:So they wheel you over lazy susan style, flip you around, it's your turn. He looks down at you and says all right, just look straight ahead. And then, right before they do it, he goes now, right, when I do this, you're gonna lose vision for a little bit, so just keep your eye straight ahead. And then, right before they do it, he goes now, right, when I do this, you're going to lose vision for a little bit, so just keep your eye straight ahead. And I'm like and your other eye, I think, is covered when he's doing the, the one he's working on.
Speaker 1:So I'm like wait a minute, I'm going to lose vision, but you want me to stare straight ahead. He made that like it was very important.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He's like so when I do this, you're going to lose vision. Make sure you stare straight ahead, like, but I can't see. I don't know if I'm looking straight ahead, I can't see nothing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So it goes black Like after he does the whole thing and you're like did I look to the left, I don't know, there's complete darkness. I'm like, I'm very like anxious and nervous.
Speaker 2:I'm anxious right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm nervous about did it go well. But yeah, when he did it I was like, oh man, I think I just looked to the left.
Speaker 2:You or me?
Speaker 1:I think I looked to the left. I ruined it. Well, this is not going to work, and then he does the other one. Yeah, it well this is not gonna work. And then he does the other one, yeah, and then you're done. And then they put these, like um nick fury patches on your eyes and tape them to your head, and then your wife drives you home yeah it's super. And then they're like make sure you don't rub your eyes and I'm like well, I'm not gonna rub my eye Crazy.
Speaker 2:When you're asleep. Yeah, that's the second thing they're like.
Speaker 1:well, make sure you wear these and, you know, do not rub your eye.
Speaker 2:Can you wear those at night? So you're not. Yeah, you can sleep in them.
Speaker 1:But, I don't know what it was like day two or something.
Speaker 2:I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1:And I was just like rubbing the oh my gosh, the laser fell off, or whatever. You know like it was. Yeah, I was nervous.
Speaker 2:I can't believe you did that so.
Speaker 1:I did One more thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They say after you do that you may see halos around lights and all this stuff. I saw me some halos for a couple of years. But, I'm very. It wasn. It wasn't horrible, but my brain was like you've ruined your vision. So I'd drive at night and like headlights would be coming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it was yeah, there was some.
Speaker 1:was it Beyonce? There's some halos, Would you?
Speaker 2:do it again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I didn't have to wear contacts.
Speaker 2:I didn't have to wear contacts.
Speaker 1:I didn't always had. My eyes were always crazy red yeah, yeah, you know and then you'd be doing anything like, oh, playing basketball or whatever, and like oh contact right hold on nobody move yeah, let's find a clear nickel right, yeah, on the ground real quick yeah I guess I'd do it again, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I have seen those. I can't think for a second. Oh yeah, the billboards that say you know, lasik, maybe it's on the way to Florida, who knows? Yeah, and then it gives you the price per eye, and I'm like who's like you know? What can we just do by the pair? Or are people like, well, this year I'm going to do this eye?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And then next year for my birthday. I'm going to do the right eye.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, if that's the way you got to do it, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:That just seems like something's going to end up lopsided.
Speaker 1:Or if you're just like a sniper or something, just get that right one done, yeah. Or if you're Nick Fury.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess. So. Anywho, I just thought that was interesting. So, lasik, so he might do that later on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2:I'm glad I did it, but saying it out loud now oh yeah, I'm surprised I did it, but you're on the table. What are you going to do? Right, and back then when you got it? I'm sure you know you're not.
Speaker 1:Googling all the stuff about it. You know what I mean. No, it showed up and I think that was what was that like? That was in 2000 maybe, or something like that.
Speaker 2:Wow that's a long time ago. Yeah, it's still way pre-kid, but then I guess the um, but they also probably get better at it.
Speaker 1:It's one of those things like you know what I want to get it now, while you haven't perfected it, and it's really way too expensive yeah, I don't want to wait until y'all got this down no, let's go ahead and just I'll.
Speaker 2:I'll go ahead and see how it is for a couple years yeah um, so yeah, I doctor, I may end up going to costco next time. I don't know, it's just too expensive, but now no one cares. But I'm where. I wear my glasses all the time because even watching TV, like far away, I'm like it makes it a little sharper, I don't know. Anyway, glasses, because I did not grow up wearing glasses or contacts and I didn't understand what people meant Like well, it's just blurry. I'm like that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2:Yeah what people meant like well, it's just blurry. I'm like that's weird, that's unfortunate. Yeah, like you know, I was thankful, but I, just like our dad, you know, wore glasses his whole life that all we could remember and it's like remember he would take them off and sometimes you're like that's weird oh because you're used to seeing somebody in glasses.
Speaker 1:Yeah it was yeah, it was like a different person I remember he took them off at a lake. Oh and he had them sitting on the dock.
Speaker 2:What's up, Otis?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. We never went to a lake so I don't know. I guess somebody let us go to their lake house or something. So I'm walking on the dock barefoot and I feel something next to my foot. I thought it was a stick, like just some loose stick on the dock, so I kind of grabbed the stick between my toes and just toss it in the water, getting it out of there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I remember dad was like Marty no.
Speaker 2:And the glasses just sunk. To the bottom of the dark lake and he dove down.
Speaker 1:I don't know, he had to just be feeling for him because he couldn't see him.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh him. And he dove down. I don't know, he had to just be feeling for him because he couldn't see him. Oh, my god, because I think he was legally blind, right, it was like 22, 50 or something crazy which I still don't understand how those numbers work but whatever, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So anyway, we couldn't find him I remember this yeah and then we had that little toyota pickup stick shift. Mom couldn't drive a stick shift and I was 10 or something like that, yeah. So obviously I couldn't either, and she had to drive home and like, trying her best, like well, that's hard to do when you're just on the spot Like all right drive home.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's an emergency Burning in traffic. Oh my gosh, it's all hilly. You're trying to roll back. Yeah, it was a great day. That was good job, marty, you get a star. Yeah, yeah, so um, but anyway it is. It is kind of funny. Well, now you know. Instead of the eye charts, they have like the screens but with the mirror.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm saying when they do oh yeah, and Jonah's so funny like that. You know they do it all day and this lady that is the doctor that looks after him and whatever the contact stuff like she's super smart, but she just forgot to click it and so she's like okay, what about the next to the bottom one noun, he goes. I mean, well, it's FSDNT because I memorized it. So if you want to switch them up, or he goes. I mean you know it's the same as last time, but it's fascinating to me how they put them on the screen and then they read them in the mirror.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's the point of?
Speaker 2:that I don't know, I guess. So they can see it.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean? I guess so.
Speaker 2:Instead of turning around so they can still look at the patient's eyes because they've got the big, huge eyeglass thing in front of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So they can look at it, but the patient is looking over their shoulder, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Well, forever, they just had the chart and I don't think the chart changed.
Speaker 2:It's just E, so I guess you could remember.
Speaker 1:It's weird how people try super hard on that test.
Speaker 2:Or like you're trying to fake it and they're like R D C. Just so you can't read it. It's like you know you shouldn't feel bad. You can't study for this, you're not a bad person. And then everybody does it.
Speaker 1:I did it yeah, sorry, I wish I could see better yeah, you squint really hard and like yeah, I don't think yeah that's not how that works, and then, yeah, it's weird because you're like I didn't know I needed glasses till 10th grade oh, wow because I was in 10th grade and we had this teacher, mr Mr Wooley. Man you take overhead projector just on steroids every Monday through Thursday.
Speaker 1:Wowzer He'd sit at your desk, he'd turn it on and you'd take notes the entire hour and then he'd be like everybody, done with page two I'm going to page three and he'd jerk it out and I'd be like it's a blur. And he wrote it with a Sharpie or something like a lunatic, like it's in cursive, like with a Sharpie on an over projector. I've got bad vision.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, it's smudged a little bit on the edge.
Speaker 1:So I fell behind and I was like I can't read good from a distance. So then I went and got glasses. Yeah, and then we left and I remember being like oh, there's leaves on the trees.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I would just look up and see green. How long had that been going on? Forever? A couple of years, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:But you don't recognize it, that it's changed At the time.
Speaker 2:You just when you get, when the problem's fixed you're like ooh that's clear, exactly. Well, I've got glasses at 50, and it's like oh, I guess I didn't realize.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, anyway, it's still a miracle. Glasses are a miracle. I'll say this the other day I thought I needed glasses because me and Robin ran some errands. I'm guessing we just said y'all play Fortnite, we'll be back in two hours, yep. So we go run some errands and we're coming home and we see a lady walking down the street. And she's just walking, she's just texting on her phone and I'm like, is that Is it? And we drove by her.
Speaker 2:Who was?
Speaker 1:it. No, she wasn't famous. Oh what? Well, here's the deal, so we drive by yeah and then I tell robin, I'm like, did you see that? And she was like, was that her hair? No, she was texting on her phone and on her right shoulder was a giant green parrot. No, walking down on the sidewalk like a major, like a will. Trevor traveled street, street road, moore's lane what with a parrot are you like?
Speaker 2:there's a lady pirate in brentwood, is she?
Speaker 1:mrs buffett, like I don't understand Where's Johnny.
Speaker 2:Depp, what is happening right now?
Speaker 1:All I could think is like I mean, some people take their dog off leash because, like, oh, he's trained, he won't go. What if he just flies?
Speaker 2:away. Why is she looking down texting?
Speaker 1:No, she was texting with a parrot.
Speaker 2:Oh, Morris Lane, that's kind of busy. I wanted to. I wish I had her number.
Speaker 1:I wanted to text her and be like is that a parrot?
Speaker 2:Is that a parrot? I'm also videoing you.
Speaker 1:Apparently, you had your mind, it was that is. I've never seen it in my life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, won't see it again, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's not like I went to Ed's Crazy Pit World or something Right or?
Speaker 2:she's not like in the jungle area of like Disney, with a brown khaki shirt on and works there, do you?
Speaker 1:yeah, are you on your way to go make balloon?
Speaker 2:animals.
Speaker 1:Like where are you going?
Speaker 2:What is the errand? Yeah, are we going to a. Is there a parent store over there?
Speaker 1:I hope she was going to PetSmart to buy some bird food Like where else do you go with?
Speaker 2:a parent. Petusersmarts? I don't know that is. Wow Anyway, but when I saw it I was like I will have my glasses on when I leave here, because I will not want to miss that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I haven't seen her.
Speaker 2:That's the only time I've ever seen her. Wow, that's a special sighting, right there yeah. Have you seen the parrot lady on Moore's Lane? Oh, my gosh, that is. I have so many. There's so much backstory there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, was it a gift?
Speaker 2:No yeah. How did we get like?
Speaker 1:How did you make that choice? We're going to walk.
Speaker 2:We're not all the way to Moore's Lane today, whatever the parrot's name is. You just stay on my shoulder. What kind of training went into this?
Speaker 1:activity and you know the parrot's got to be like. You know I can fly right.
Speaker 2:Right, can you speed it up? Who are you texting? You shouldn't text and walk.
Speaker 1:That's like your Uber driver is just texting what it was. Yeah, robin thought it was her hair or something. She thought she just saw it, she was driving, whatever she thought they had crazy green I don't know scrunchie in her hair or something I don't know. Um, oh, but yeah, I turned all the way around and and watched her until she was out of sight.
Speaker 2:I don't really have a response to that?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Polly want a cracker. I don't know. It confused me.
Speaker 2:So much.
Speaker 1:So much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is yeah.
Speaker 1:Did you break down? Were you delivering the parrot? You know what? Come on, get on my shoulder, I'm going to take you the rest of the way.
Speaker 2:Right, did she find the parrot on the walk? Yeah, which I don't think she would be that calm If a parrot just landed on her shoulders like, hey, don't mind me. I know you're on a walk and you got some drama going on with the family and you're trying to text, but I'm just gonna hit your ride.
Speaker 1:I'm tired. Just look down, just keep walking. Nothing to see here on your right shoulder. Well, people are so into their social media. Maybe she's oblivious yeah, the parrot was probably like what you on instagram maybe her right shoulder has no feeling, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's that is, yeah, or?
Speaker 1:maybe she needs glasses, I don't know. Wow, anyway, it was crazy. I'm gonna be looking for every time I go down that road now where on morris lane not to get? Across from uh the golf course, the n Nashville Golf Club or whatever.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like you're going back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was walking by it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm taking that way home for real.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm going to take that way maybe every day, if I'm going home or not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll see her again. I'm pulling over.
Speaker 2:Hey, ma'am, you know you got a parrot on your shoulder.
Speaker 1:You got a little something right. No, you got a parrot on your shoulder, you got a little something right.
Speaker 2:No, the other shoulder it's a little.
Speaker 1:It's green yeah it's supposed to be in a zoo, yeah, or a cage?
Speaker 2:Yeah, are you taking it back to PetSmart?
Speaker 1:Maybe she was returning it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is it micro-shipped? You know what I'm saying? Beep, yep, that's ours. Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1:We appreciate you bringing it back anyway, alright, well, I'll keep my glasses on so I can look for the parrot lady. Yeah, look out for her, she's out there man alright till next time, yeah, y'all have a good one.
