Another small miracle for Christmas

Yesterday morning I woke up to put my glasses on my face to realize that they were no longer one pair of glasses, but two pieces of a frame. There were no eye places in town that were open except for Walmart Vision Center. I drove myself squinting to the local Walmart and when the sales lady asked, "Can I help you?"-----I was thinking God, I hope so. We went throught the whole rigamoroo of checking to see if my lenses would fit into another set of frames--------that was a no go. There was no optometrist in the office and they do not have equipment to sauder frames. I am not a normal patient of Walmart Vision Center so they had none of my prescription information on file. The lady turned and said, "Sorry I couldn't be of any help."

I looked at her, could feel the tears welling up in my eyes. I asked her if she minded if I just sat in the waiting room a while. I knew I was gonna start to cry and didn't want to be wondering through the Walmart aimlessly. I thought I would just sit and have a good cry in the chair and then go from there. She asked me, "What's the matter honey?" Well I took that as an invitation to tell her about every problem I have had for the last two weeks! Wouldn't you?

I began to sob miserably like a child and I said something like this, "What's the matter? Well the transmission went out of our Saturn, we got that fixed for a whopping $1500 just before Christmas, my husbands car completely broke down and is just sitting in the driveway---waiting for someone to come along and push it off a cliff, I have spent the last three days in the hospital for a gall bladder surgery that I do not have any health care coverage for, not because my husband and I don't work our butts off, but because the government says we do not qualify, my mom took my children so that I could recuperate from surgery, however I need to finish my kids Christmas shopping, I am in massive pain yet from the surgery and moving extremely slowly as it is, and now I CANT SEE to do anything I need to do." The poor sales lady just stopped an looked at me in a sad sort of way that can only be described as, "What do I do with this customer?" I apologized to her for my breakdown and thanked her for her time and began to get up a walk out of the vision center.

The lady stopped me and asked me to come into the back room. She asked me for my glassed and disappeared into another room for a few minutes as I sat there feeling like a complete idiot. She came back and asked me if I have ever worn contact lenses. I told here that I haven't been able to wear contact lenses for a few years now because of allergy problems. She said, "Well we are gonna try." She had gotten the precription off my glasses and went to retrieve a pair of contact lenses. She asked me to put them in my eyes and tell me how they felt. They felt wonderful. Contact lenses before had itched and burned, but I couldn't even tell these were in my eyes. I asked her how much do I owe her. She explained to me that she couldn't sell me these because I wasn't a patient. She also told me that they were the cheapest contact lenses to purchase in the store. She said, "you have never met me, and I have never met you. Now go out there and get your kids the rest of the presents, and get home and get some bed rest." I reached over and hugged her so tight and she smiled and said, "Merry Christmas honey." I don't know her name and have never seen her before. She was and forever will be a Christmas angel to me.