Preparing for a Newborn’s Cataract Surgery

After a few long-winded, late-night conversations, we made the individual choice that we felt we needed to give Arthur every chance we could to establish his vision. We were going to fight for his sight.

What keeps me up at night: uncorrected refractive errors in children

Do you know what keeps me up at night?  It’s the fact that there’s a really high percentage of kids out there who need glasses to see well, and they don’t have them.  It sounds overly dramatic to say that, but there are a lot of kids out there, who, if they had glasses, wouldContinue reading “What keeps me up at night: uncorrected refractive errors in children”

vision acuity simulator

This comes via Bright Eyes News (where I get almost all my vision-related news): an online vision acuity simulator – you can enter a prescription and see a simulation of what a vision chart would look like to someone with that prescription who isn’t wearing glasses.  [Updated 3/1/2009:   As Annie notes in the comments,Continue reading “vision acuity simulator”