Meera Eye Clinic

Down at 1/1906 in Kochi is where you will find our eye clinic. The building is typical for this part of town and the air is often quite humid so we keep the fans going at full speed most of the time. We have a small room dedicated to testing eyes where it is dark so we can use the lights to look at pupils. There is a chart on the wall with all the letters in different sizes that everyone knows so well. We have a collection of frames in a glass case but it isn’t a fancy showroom or anything like that. Most people just come in because they noticed their vision getting a bit blurry while reading the newspaper. The floor is tiled and easy to sweep which is good because people bring in a lot of sand on their shoes from outside. We have a small desk where we write down the prescriptions on little slips of paper. It’s a quiet place for the most part except for the sound of the traffic coming from the main road nearby. We don’t have a lot of staff just a couple of us who have been working here together for a long time. It feels like a small family business and we know a lot of the people who walk in by their first names. We even have an old water cooler in the corner that makes a funny gurgling sound when someone uses it during the hot afternoons.