I'm so broken-hearted today. I had a sweet patient this week who is a poet. We were joking around during the exam and he made a comment about how he could write a whole poem about my ear (because optometrists always instruct patients to "look at my ear" during the exam). While he was sitting in the waiting room dilating he started sketching out a ( Read more... )

I removed my first corneal foreign body today. It's kind of a landmark moment for a new OD. Mine was a little bit of vegetative material, like maybe a little piece of leaf. But it had imbedded itself enough that removing it wasn't totally easy. But I did get it off. It's crazy how much your hands look like they are shaking under magnification, but ( Read more... )