by Pullman Family Eye Staff | Jun 30, 2019 | As We See It
Needing a bifocal is a benchmark in life much like one’s high school diploma, first kiss, first pay check, or first child. Life is never really the same after a benchmark. For those of us who have slipped into that “bifocal age,” life has changed. The name for this...
by Pullman Family Eye Staff | Jun 30, 2019 | As We See It
What you call peripheral vision tests, doctors call central fields (CFs). As a science it’s known as perimetry. It tests your visual sensitivity 300 up, down, right and left. Truthfully it’s a 300 circular pivot around fixation (spot where you’re looking). ...
by Pullman Family Eye Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | As We See It
Cataracts, just as death and taxes, are something everyone will experience. Of course if you die at age three, you’ll know nothing of taxes or cataracts for that matter, well, unless you were born with congenital cataracts. Beyond the rather depressing scenario just...
by Pullman Family Eye Staff | Dec 20, 2018 | As We See It
In eyecare clarity of focus is important. It can even change our lives this time of year, or so some say. I’m settling for brown brackish brine. Woke-up too late for a good cup of coffee. Woke up too late to brew coffee. Thankfully my Keurig provided a pretty fair...
by Pullman Family Eye Staff | Dec 1, 2018 | As We See It
I live in Washington State, one of the first states to usurp federal law and usher in legal “recreational” marijuana. Yet even before recreational marijuana we had “legalized” medicinal marijuana, the intricacies of which I do not understand, and I’m too lazy to...
by Pullman Family Eye Staff | Oct 30, 2018 | As We See It
Through the years there has been a shortsighted allegory accepted among certain factions of America culture about shortsightedness (nearsightedness or myopia) itself. It’s commonly whispered among parents that one of the causative influences of the progression of the...
