I’m going to be a grandpa! Wow, how did that happen? Weren’t my kids just in school? Yes, it happens that fast. Virtually in the blink of an eye. Anyway, a new era is about to begin and it got me to thinking about pregnancy and vision. I see many young mothers to be and […]
This has to be one of the coldest winters for an extended period of time in the Texas panhandle this year. Usually we have the extreme cold snaps and get to 15 degrees or lower with the winds making the wind chills much colder for a few days. Then we could be back into the […]
Don’t get “Bob Costas Eye”. To tell you the truth, I have not been watching the Sochi Winter Olympics. In fact, the Westminster Dog Show held my attention more. But all the media attention on Bob Costas’ eye infection drew my interest to what was going on and so like a bad accident I had […]
Experience it! Experience the world. There are so many beautiful things to see. Life is too short to miss it. Many of us are and we don’t even know it. For example, when we check young school age children, we occasionally come across one that finds out (usually boys) that he can’t distinguish between the […]
I often get asked by parents of children I am prescribing glasses for, “How come they passed the vision screening at school but still need glasses?” While school nurses provide a valuable service that sometimes detect serious problems with children’s vision, school vision screenings are an incomplete check of a child’s visual status. For one, […]
If you live in an area that receives snowfall, you may remember someone in school coming back from a ski trip that didn’t wear sunglasses or goggles on the slopes and ended up with a case of severe snow-blindness or sunburn to their eyes. Their eyes hurt so bad and were so blurry they couldn’t […]
Who all remembers the Kmart commercials with the blue light bulb cartoon character advertising their “Blue Light Specials?” For those not in the know, Kmart shoppers sometimes were able to buy certain items at a special price when the blue police light suddenly came on. A voice would come over the P.A. system, “Attention Kmart […]
You remember. 1973. You see the ad in the back of a comic book. X-ray glasses! Every young man’s fantasy. As an adult, you think, “Ugh, some things are better left unseen.” Some things just seem to be too good to be true, until you waste your money and find out the product doesn’t end […]
Ever seen the spy type movies where the government agent puts his eye up against a camera and a laser seems to scan across his eye like a grocery store bar code scanner? It is for real. They scan the retina to identify people since the retina in everyone’s eyes is unique, like a fingerprint. […]
Many times I have explained to patient’s that I am using a magnifying lens while at the microscope to look at the inside back surface of the eye. They often exclaim, especially kids, “You can see all the way back there? How can you do that?” “Well,” I tell them, “you have a hole in […]