May 3, 2011

A Busy Rainy Day & A Visit From Geese

By jpotanko

Yes, had a visit from a family of geese today. We have noticed these geese roaming around the complex while we were here. Today, they decided to get an up close view of our van to see what all the commotion was about.

Now that I have gotten the “Aww How Cute” out of you, time to get down to business.  Today was our busiest day as far as the number of students that were seen and second busiest day for the lab thus far. We saw 296 students today with 258 of them needing eyeglasses, giving us an 87.1% need. Our cumulative totals are 1661 students seen with 1411 needing eyeglasses, an 85.0% of need.

There was a little boy by the name of Armani who came in today with his school. He was very timid and hesitant to go through the pre testing equipment.  Michelle, one of the members of our core team, was kind enough to walk with Armani at each station. Michelle went first on each machine to show him what being done. Afterwards, Michelle allowed Armani to go through the same test, helping him to be more at ease.  Armani finished out the process by picking out his new eyeglasses and then gave Michelle a big hug and said thank you!

The students while awaiting dilation, serenated one of our team members with “Happy Birthday!” to help pass the time. Eddie enjoyed it all in good fun & got a great laugh out of it. Eddie is now 36, so Happy Birthday Eddie!

Our team dinner was at Buddy’s Pizza, where we had our fill on unlimited pizza and salad. Lori, Amber, and Greg helped get a birthday cake and birthday card for Eddie while we were out this evening. Everyone had a great time and I’m sure a number of us are going to feel stuffed for a while.

Tomorrow and Thursday we will be sending a team out to three different schools to start dispensing some of the eyewear we have made on site to the kids. Photos and stories will be posted on Wednesday and Thursday night blogs for everyone to see how excited the kids are and how much of a difference it makes to them.

If anyone is interested in donating, our team page link can be found at http://onesight.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&eventID=514&teamID=5074  We will be raising money all throughout the year for our clinic. Any donation, no matter the amount, is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your support!

Detroit Team 2011

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