Mildred: 9 Year Old Daughter From -3.00 To -1.50 Progress
Time to add another report to the child myopia reduction column, darlings. As usual and not to beat the dead horse too much, screens are the complete enemy of child eyeballs. What you really need for your child is to go no phones, no iPads, no close-up screens. If need be, computer screens at reasonable distance, and avoiding having screens become your child's de-facto parent / babysitter. The cause of child myopia is not introducing your child to the wonders of playing with real, three [...]
2018 – Stats Of The Year Review
Numbers. Numbers don't really reflect what matters to most of us here, but let's have a quick review of 2018 numbers, anyway. Google / Search 2018 wasn't a great year for us on Google. Mostly because your darling eye guru tried to do the right thing and update the site to SSL and mobile friendliness. In the process of doing so we lost about 30% of our regular traffic, because yea. An old tottery eye sage isn't good at Internet things. But we recovered. It's still a [...]
Dave: -4.50 Down To -2.50 (Optometrist Confirmed)
Gains report time, darlings. This one to balance our last post, where unfortunately an old guru about went off the rails again, discussing the collective ineptitude of the so-called vision care establishment. Ss with everything in life, it's not all one way. Today it's the opposite of the less than stellar experience we looked at yesterday, with clearly someone who knows what they're talking about, and supports their customers (not 'patients', since we're not sick here). Check it out: So there's that. I post all [...]
“Medical” Diagnosis Vs. Critical Thinking
Friends. Darlings. Kittehs. Let's pray together for a moment. "Dear Lucky Gods, don't let ole Jakey VonBeardenstein get into a massive, giant, endless rant again, today. Thank you, Lucky Gods. Amen. Om Shanti. A bientot." (substitute your deity of choice as appropriate) Why the prayer? Because we live in interesting times. We live in a time where we're about to overcome the old timey dogma of paternal, authoritative "medical" personas. Google, the Internet, all the tools we have available now allow us to explore symptoms, [...]
Why I Don’t Trust Optometrist Measurements
Video time! Last day in Vietnam, high speed Internet abounds, and your favorite eye guru has been carrying around all the video gear for two months now. It's clearly high time we got together for a little chat that's not just a text blog Website entry thing. So this time let's cover why I don't trust optometrist measurements. Or rather, how they approach the concept of "distance to blur" from the opposite end than recommended by your favorite Holiness, His Guru Von Jaken-shanti. Short version: [...]
Why You Should … Keep A Log Of Your Gains
A foundational principle of our way to improve eyesight is quantifying results. No feel-good fruity eye exercises, no om-shanti unicorn jungleberries, no chakras and chants and throwing away your glasses and hoping for the best. We want to test a hypothesis (will x-stimulus improve my own eyesight) by measuring and logging and ultimately quantifying specific change. That's what you should be on the lookout for with any given idea of implementing a regimen to extract a desired change. Keeping a log, especially with multiple data [...]