Clinic Blog: 2011 Detroit Clinic Blog
April 28, 2011
Day of Dispensing & the Not-So-Silent Auction
By jpotanko
Our third day of the clinic was greeted with fairly cold weather at the start of the morning. After a quick run to Starbucks, our team hopped right into positions and awaited our day's worth of students. Today we saw 265 students, of which 219 needed eyeglasses. That brings our overall totals 819 kids that we have seen thus far with 705 of them needing eyeglasses. That is a 86.1% need so far at our clinic. We were also able to dispense eyeglasses to one of the schools we saw earlier in the clinic and are currently working out plans for our team to start dispensing out eyeglasses that we have completed to the students in need. We also had our Not-So-Silent Auction today to help raise money for the Onesight program. Some of the items that were donated were Detroit Tigers gift bags, a signed Portland Trail Blazers jersey, customized Oakley Sunglasses with the Onesight logo and colors, an iPod Shuffle and various bottles of wine. The auction was a HUGE success!
We had a young man who came into our clinic today who had a very difficult time seeing and at times had to be helped through the process because he couldnt see. The young man came to our auto-refraction area, which gives us a rough idea on what his prescription looks like for the doctors. We were able to get a reading on his right eye, which was reading at a very high plus prescription (+13.00), but could not get an accurate reading on his left eye, despite using two different machines. The young man went to one of our doctors, Dr. Caldwell, and it waas discovered that the young man had surgery done that had implants installed and one of the implants had actually shifted out of alignment for him. Dr Caldwell was able to write a prescription for him to help him be able to see, which the glasses were able to be proceed on site in our lab. Greg Martin, one of our core team members, sat with the young man and helped him eat his lunch as he couldnt see what was given to him and ensured the boy that he would get his glasses as soon as we can have them ready.
A young lady also came through our clinic process today who had never worn glasses before in her life. Once she was finished, she needed a +5.50 prescription for eyeglasses, which is a fairly high prescription need for a first time wearer. Our lab team, who have been very efficent and helped produced this young lady a pair of glasses today for her onsite that she was able to go home with today! She tried those glasses on and her eyes lit up when she was able to see. She came over and gave Erica, one of our core team members, a big hug and thanked her for her new eyeglasses!
One 12 year old girl was having a difficult time with some of the pre-testing procedures in our clinic and did not want any more testing done. Desha, our fundraising captain had actually walked her through the tests with her being tested so that the little girl could actually see what was being done. Desha talked and danced and joked with the little girl to help ease her through the tests without any difficulty and ended up enjoying her experience here! Awesome job Desha!
This comes from one of our core team leaders, Dawn, who has been on countless Regional and Global Clinics throughout the years and has many years of experience:
I’ve been an optician for a long time and have seen some crazy Rx’s even dispensed some really high powers in other countries but in 1 day to have my hands on a -18.50, a -17.00 -3.00 and a -14.00 all in the same day, made on our amazing production van EyeVan brings a smile to my face and a sense of pride that I work for a company that cares enough to give back. These kids in Detroit need OneSight and the glasses this fantastic team is making daily and it’s great to be a part of it.
Dawn
Thank you for your continued interest and support!
Detroit Team 2011
