Archive for the ‘Eye Information’ Category

Greetings!  I hope you are well.  Like many of you, I wear glasses much of my waking hours.  I first started wearing glasses when I was around 9 years old, and have worn some combination of glasses or contact lenses since then, with the wondrous exception of 12 years from my Lasik surgery until birthdays caught me and bifocals kicked in. The quality of spectacle lenses has improved dramatically over the years.  I wear progressive, no-line multifocal lenses instead of lined bifocals.  I have super-thin lenses, with anti-glare, anti-reflective lens coatings.  Amazing! However, I am the single most visually-compulsive person (more…)

Hello All!  In celebration of my wife and I deciding that Italy is the official destination of our 25th wedding anniversary in 2012, let me say, “Buon Natale!” Well, it happens every year.  We preach and preach for all our contact lens patients to follow the prescribed wearing schedule, use the prescribed solutions, and have accurate back-up glasses.  As Santa checks his list of naughty and nice, where would you fall when it comes to following your eye doctor’s instructions regarding your contact lenses?  As often happens, late afternoon on Christmas Eve, a Durham patient paged me; from the tone (more…)