Every day I have the same conversation with a patient who just turned 40. Every. single. day. The conversation goes something like this: Patient: “I can’t see my phone! Everything is blurry up close and my arms are not long enough to hold my phone far enough away so that it’s in focus. What is
Read moreToday a patient told me that they would rather get a $20 exam from 1-800-Contacts than come in to see me for an exam. Ouch. That hurts. I should have been a dentist. People respect their dentists enough to brush their teeth twice a day and come in bi-annually for dental cleanings. People look at
Read moreIt’s been recently brought to my attention that my hard contact lens wearing patients have it a lot harder than my soft contact lens wearing patients. Soft contact lens solution is readily available at pharmacies and grocery stores and big box retailers. But hard contact cleaning solutions, conditioning solutions, insertion and removal plungers, even preservative
Read moreI love this video so much I think it deserves it’s own post. It just does such a great job explaining the underlying causes of Blepharitis, which is the medical term for inflammation of your eyelids. Blepharitis is what happens when you don’t practice good lid hygiene (aka clean your eyelids), which results in bacteria
Read more
