My office staff and I visited the Vision Expo in NYC last week. We plan on making a few additions to the office. The advances in contact lenses, lenses for spectacles and diagnostic imagery is fantastic. It is very important to realize also that there is a person behind the eyeballs.

We have now celebrated our 21st year in my practice here in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. I so enjoy being in private practice. Optometry for me has been a most rewarding career. I have seen many of my patients grow from childhood to adulthood. It is most gratifying when patients have confidence in the practice to refer their family and friends. I am quite involved with the happenings in the surrounding area. I'm involved with three different chambers of commerce. Interesting enough, I am one of the only health care professionals that is active in the functions of the chambers. I thoroughly enjoy both the direct networking and social networking (electronic) aspects of my business.

If I had to do it all over again, I would certainly pick the same profession.

Sometimes when you prescribe an individual over forty years of age glasses for distance and they don't want a bifocal, there can be discomfort. I had a patient who was in her fifties whom we prescribed distance glasses for ( she normally takes her glasses off for reading). She stated the distance was great but she got dizzy looking at her dashboard while driving as well as looking at the ground. I had to weaken the prescription slightly so she could view up close more easily while not disturbing the distance vision significantly. the outcome was good.