Updated: New information about free eye exams and eyeglasses

Ok, here is an update on some new information I got and I have already submitted my name and etc. to them to contact me regarding this since my son now needs an exam and may need glasses.

So, here goes:  You can find more info on the www.new-eyes.org website.
The school counselor called and gave me some info on who to contact:

She told me to call Vision USA, but instead I Googled www.aoafoundation.org/vision-usa them and found out that I do not qualify since I have Medicaid, but there may be someone out there who needs to contact them, so just Google Vision USA and you will see if you qualify.

When you look up the new-eyes website, it will also bring up the other and about 5 other sites that can help: Commission For The Blind, Lions Clubs, Vision USA, Sight for Students and EyeCare America.  The glasses will come from the retailer www.MarvelOpitics.com.  Individuals cannot apply for themselves. The online application is only accessible to social service agencies who apply on their clients behalf.  Eligibility requirements are:

New Eyes purchases new prescription eyeglasses for low-income individuals in the U.S. through a voucher program. To be eligible for our program, applicants must:

• Meet the U.S. Poverty guidelines.
• Have had a recent eye exam. New Eyes does not pay for eye exams. Contact Us if you need assistance in locating a source of free or low-cost eye exams
• Have no other resources available to them to pay for glasses, including federal or state programs or assistance from local charitable organizations.

A New Eyes voucher typically covers only the cost of a basic pair of single or lined bifocal eyeglasses.

Happy hunting everyone...

DPS Indigence Information

I did some research and found some web links that are to be very helpful to me:

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/DriverLicense/IndigencyProgram.htm

https://www.txsurchargeonline.com/Indigence.aspx

I will be printing out the form and filling it out soon.  I really need to get this from over my head and move on and get my license back.  It is hard to do anything without a valid ID.  It really sucks when I cannot haul off scrap iron, pawn anything or even buy cigarettes at some stores.  And to get and ordinary picture ID, it takes the whole file cabinet.  You have to have your suspended or expired ID, 2 forms of bills from your household (with your name on them), a copy of my birth certificate, a copy of my marriage license, school transcripts and something else I can't remember.  Pppffffewww!!!  I just want a standard picture ID.  Well, that has taken a back seat until I can get this Indigent stuff out of the way.  Someday soon I will have my license and be legal.  But for now, I just side-seat drive.  LOL

Down and Out

We have never been this far down before. I am hoping we can get back from this. We have no job, no place to live. I am filling out appilcations left and right and applying for jobs all over central texas and trying to get some sort of housing for us. I just don't know what I am doing. I am sick and just feel like crap. Every morning I wake up to my eye matted shut and my left ear hurts so badly. What can I do? I feel like such an idiot. My husband is sick and has a toothache that is horrible. He is driving me crazy with the pain and I cannot help him. My mother-in-law is not helping trying to make us fight and drive us further apart and making me look bad at every turn. Why are we even here? She asked us to live with her to help or make us look bad? Idk. I am trying but at every turn there is an obstacle. I am tired of not being the way we were when we had jobs and a future. Now, I feel worthless and like I am nothing, an embarrassment. I feel like my child is embarrassed by me when I try too hard. I know he is embarrassed when has to defend me to his grandparents. What can I do? Guess I will call 211 and cry.