Bifocals, thanks a lot Ben Franklin, I had no idea...

In the last year of my forties, I have noted a bit of eye strain after spending one day per week staring at a computer and looking at paperwork. It crossed my mind that I have a pair of single vision prescription reading glasses I enjoy using from my nightstand for prolonged reading, I figured a computer bifocal with a large wide computer prescription up top and a reading segment down under might be a nice tool for "Desk Day".

I have not been so visually annoyed.

The prescription is current, the focal lengths and working distances are measured and calibrated for the task. Bifocals, it turns out, are just a bad way for me to wear glasses.

Issue number one: The large wide computer prescription up top, as in the computer monitor viewing lens, is fine. But, and in the largest sense of the word, there is a very large, 28 millimeter to be exact, blurry floater in my inferior field of view. The issue is, it will not go away, ever.

Issue number two is about the line. I had always heard and probably even calculated for National Board exams how much an image would jump when gazing from one lens to the other across a bifocal segment line. I visualize no such jump. What I do see is a large horizontal blur all of the time. At 40 centimeters that blur occupies two lines of print. At my feet, like where a golf ball or sidewalk curb might be, it occupies some 10 centimeters and at optical infinity it takes up a good 25 centimeters. Yes, ten inches of my vision is obscured by a blurry line. Whatever!

Thank you so much for your time, I am off to order lined trifocals to wear all of the time now, NOT!

Good Day,
Dr. Greg

Oakley & Murrayhill Little League in April

There are plenty of community activities and groups to get behind and support. One of my choices this year is to team up with Oakley and promote great eye wear and sunglasses during great baseball month of April.
We are please to report that Murrayhill Little League will receive 10% of our sales, up to $2,000.00, in the month of April 2013 of Oakley product.
Thanks to the support of Oakley we are featuring the most current sunglass and eyeglass technologies.  Purchasers will receive a gift with purchase and be entered into the grand prize drawing for an Oakley back pack full of Oakely gear and sunglasses at the end of the month.
We are also donating the same stuffed back pack to the Murrayhill Little League for their end of year athlete raffle prizes.
If you happen to be a family member of a baseball or softball athlete we are also extending a 20% off professional service discount for April 2013.

We are looking forward to a great baseball and softball season!

Watch the ball!

Dr. Greg

Frames that fit

Here is one fantastic view about frames fitting:
There are some very specific theories about certain frame shapes and colors suiting your facial features and shapes.
Life is too short and certainly a year or two of life is most certainly too fleeting to concern ones self about such things.
If you find a shape or color you like, own it.

Cheers,
Dr. Greg

Left your contacts in too long? Not a good idea.

Cute animation and pretty darn good advice.
Way to go Acuvue!
Dr. Greg

Why is winning so important?

In it to win it.
Winning.
Winning isn't everything it is the only thing.

There are a lot of ways to say it and it seems to be quite important in life. Psychologists say that winning is innate. I got the idea that winning is so desirable and so sweet because it is so HARD to do. Think about it.
Have you ever seen a team blow a lead in the ninth inning of a pivotal game. There are so many obstacles to securing the win that it becomes HARD to do.
Besides, if winning were easy we would all do it...

Speaking of winning, I saw a patient today that is going to community college. She had gone through adolescence without ever really exercising or participating in athletic pursuit. She was forced by her Aunt one day to go to the gym with her. Something clicked, she cannot explain it but she is hooked on exercise science, fitness and nutrition. Her goal is become a personal trainer and eventually a performance enhancement specialist at Nike. You know what I told her? Then do it! I think she will. She is winning.

Take a minute and find those around you who are winning and pat them on the back and celebrate their victories, it is so important to win. It is hard to do, but oh-so worth it.