One word sums up today’s clinic – awesome! EyeVan is working beautifully and the glasses are lining up for delivery. We got to sort and see the finished eyewear ready to go to the schools tomorrow. In some cases we got the privilege of placing the new glasses on the recipients today! It wasn’t just instant gratification for the kids, but also for our clinic team. Here is a photo of our team member Danny De La Rosa (Sunglass Hut) on one of the first dispensing runs out to the schools that came through our clinic yesterday.
Remember Andrew Sanchez, the 6th grader we mentioned yesterday, who had been trying to see at school by wearing his dad’s glasses? Today team members Michael Craighead (Sears Optical) and Danny De La Rosa went to Andrew’s school in National City to deliver his new glasses.
He told Michael and Danny that with his new glasses he can see very well and he believes his grades are going to get better. ”I will have better grades for the CST (California Standard Test)." Without glasses, I would get C's and D's in math. With the glasses I hope to get A's and B's".
His father (seen here) joked about Andrew using his glasses in the interim. "Every once in a whiles I would get a treat and put on my OWN glasses," he said. Andrew's mom, in the family picture, is happy he got nice Oakley frames that he will like to wear everyday.
Meanwhile, back at the Camacho Center clinic site, one of our first onsite eyewear dispenses from today’s patients included 14-year-old Janeet Gonzalez from Hoover School, and 13-year-old Evelyn Flores from National Middle School. Both were smiling and very happy to receive their cool new glasses from OneSight! Here is Dottie Short (local clinic coordinator) with Janeet as she tries her new glasses.
We also fell in love with little Christian Chiroque, a precious 3-year-old boy from Las Palmas. Sue Rees (Oakley) was working at the autorefracting station today and was shocked to see an initial prescription reading of +8.75 / -3.00 and +9.25/-2.50 on this little cutie! He was happy and smiling, but had no idea what he was missing because of his vision deficit. Soon he will know! Dr. Anita Brew (seen below) and Dr. Scott Williams, (an active duty optometrist from the Naval Medical Center San Diego) examined him and performed the eye health check, and they ordered two pairs of glasses. Having a back up pair of glasses will assure Christian will be able to see clearly in his critical developmental years. We know we’ve changed a young life!
It was also fun to host a reporter and photographer from the San Diego Union-Tribune today. We expect to see a story in Saturday’s paper all about OneSight!
Tonight the team will celebrate with dinner out -- rain or no rain. We’ll be back tomorrow!
Special thanks to Mark Lyons for the awesome photo support with several of these photos.
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