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Article #11265Defective Lenscrafters Eye Glasses Caused my Blindness
From: mollymoreman
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:35
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:35
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I got me eye glasses at Lenscrafters. They lasted 4 months before a hinge broke. $69.99 later that was repaired, and a month later the other hinge and another $69.99 for repairs. The next week one of the lenses fell out. That cost me $59.99 to repair. Two weeks after that, the other lens fell out and another $59.99 repair. That was just the beginning of my problems. I placed the glasses on my head before going to work the next day and the began to clamp tighter against my temples. They clamped tighter and tighter until the began to bend and warp. I could not even pull them off my head with the help of one of my coworkers. Before long I could not stand the pain and I left work and wentr directly to the hospital emergency room. That cost me $220 is work lost wages and a whopping $885 emergency room care. The doctors had to literally cut the glasses in half to get them off my head. As soon as I left the hospital I immediately went to Lenscrafters and filed a complaint, showing them what was left to the glasses. They said they would repair them for free, and the problem would never occur again. Three weeks later I got my glasses back. They looked exactly like they were when I first got them. I was told they had to replace the entire frame. I placed them on my face and went to work. Less than an hour later they were once again clamping my head. It took 5 people to rip them off my head. leaving my head bleeding above my ears. I became so angry that I took them, threw them on the floor, and jumped on them. They shattered into hundreds of pieces. Immediately, my eyes began to hurt, and the pain became unbearable within 5 minutes. Suddenly my left eyeball popped out of it's socket, then the right came blasting out of my face and landed on my supervisors desk. I was blind and my left eye dropped to the floor before the paramedics arrived. I am now completely blind, after paying over $5000 for these glasses and all the repairs and medical care. I will be suing Lenscrafters. Molly
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