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Helping a Delightful 93 Year Old Lady

This past week I had a very delightful low vision patient. Catherine is 93 years old. She has been getting excellent care from her ophthalmologist for many years. His treatment Read More

Macular Degeneration: Legally Blind, Maybe, Maybe Not

  A few days ago I saw two patients who had recently been told by their retinal specialists that they were legally blind and must stop driving.  The first patient, Read More

Having Trouble Reading Your Medicine Labels?

Most prescription labels fail to meet guidelines, risking dosage errors, Canadian study concludesPosted: 09 Jul 2014 08:54 AM PDT"Small print and poor printing on prescription labels handed out by pharmacists Read More

Smoking and Macular Degeneration

The following article was taken with some editing from "AOA News" 7/9/2014, the online newsletter of the American Optometric Association. "Smoke signals: Links between smoking and eye disease"Since the first Surgeon General's Report Read More

"I Can Read For Hours"

   I had a call today from a low vision patient, Joseph.  He has lost vision from glaucoma and was referred to me by his ophthalmologist.  What Joseph really wanted to Read More

Still Playing in the Band

Donald Jenkins called a couple weeks ago to tell me he is still enjoying playing in the Community Band in his town in North Carolina.  "I love my low vision Read More

Age-related macular degeneration occurs much earlier than previously assumed.

The summary below is from a large study done in Germany.  This new information adds to previous studies that show a strong link to heredity and smoking.  There are some Read More

Sight Saving Tips

 A recent article in Optometry Times by Colleen E. McCarthy listed several steps that people should take to help preserve their sight.  Titled "Help elderly maintain independence with 7 sight Read More

"You've opened my eyes to the world"

 May 5, 2014"You've opened my eyes to the world." says an Optic Atrophy patient.Mack Farmer suffered a vision loss from optic atrophy when he was a child.  Over the years Read More

Eye Nutrients for Eye Health

The October 2014 edition of AOA Focus, a publication of the American Optometric Association has an article discussing the importance of adding certain nutrients to your diet to delay the progression Read More

Eye Nutrients for Eye Health

The October 2014 edition of AOA Focus, a publication of the American Optometric Association has an article discussing the importance of adding certain nutrients to your diet to delay the progression Read More

Inspiring Article in Guideposts magazine

  There is a very inspiring article in the October 2014 issue of Guideposts.  The piece is called "Double Vision".  Author Karen Young and her twin Sharon began losing vision Read More

The Free Telephone Consultation

   Many of my low vision patients read about me on the internet or in my newspaper ads.  They take me up on my offer of a free telephone consultation Read More

Maintaining Independence

In the past few weeks two of my low vision patients have returned to me to be re-certified to continue driving with their bioptic telescopic glasses.  In Virginia bioptic drivers Read More

Searching for Help

Although most of my low vision patients are from Virginia and West Virginia some come from other states.  Today I scheduled a man who lives in South Carolina.  His daughter Read More

"Excited to get Started"

Last week I dispensed a pair of bioptic telescopic glasses to Wallace Lawson, a Virginia gentleman who has lost his driver's permit because he can no longer meet the vision Read More

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