Here I am in a new city, embarking on trying to find an Obamacare doctor.

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62. I worry about buying frames online

I have a hard time finding frames that fit my nose that has no bridge and still stay above my fat cheeks. I usually have to try several frames at the opticians before I find ones that will work. I don't care at all what they look like - I need them to be functional. Plus, they have to be capable of handling a thick lens - the lens for my right eye is about three times as thick as the one for my left. I've learned through hard experience that I HAVE to try on the frames before buying them!

I don't lose my glasses, but I need them scattered around so I don't waste time fetching them. I have two pair for driving (one tinted the other not), two pair for needlework (one with high magnification, one with lower), two pair of reading glasses (that each live where I like to read), and three pair of bifocals (one lives at the computer, one in my purse, and one in the kitchen).

With VSP I get a new pair of glasses each year - when it was through my husband's employer it was one new pair of frames every other year and in between new lenses - so I rotate among my various glasses to refresh the prescriptions periodically. I've been lucky that the only major change is I'm getting more far sighted so haven't had to make drastic alterations in the lenses.