DryEyeShop Blog

I was speaking to Brent about it and asked him, “Why do I find myself doing all this?” His reply was, “Because you care.” It’s true, I really do care about this place. It’s such a fun and interesting place to work, yeah, we all have our moments but at the end of the day I feel we are one small happy family!  

How do we care well for our eyes in an increasingly drying world?

For a long time, we've been longing for a way for patients to share their unique dry eye journeys with the rest of the world. We're now excited to announce our newest project: dryeyestories.com. We've spoken to you on the phone, read your emails, Facebook posts, and forum posts. Many stories share common elements: quality-of-life changes, lifestyle modifications, depression, stabilization, isolation, triumphs. But each story is unique. It involves problems few know about, care about, or feel they have the power to help. Going into Dry Eye Awareness month, we hope to build a collection of stories that the industry...

I'm really good at doling out advice about scleral lenses. I mean, REALLY good. It's one of my favorite hobbies. But when it comes to following my own advice? Possibly... not quite so much. I had ample opportunity to ponder this strange inconsistency today on my way to Chapel Hill, NC to speak at the National Keratoconus Foundation's family symposium taking place tomorrow morning. So first of all, thanks to some hyper-budget-conscious fit of lunacy, I booked myself on a flight departing Seatac Airport at 5:45am. I live an hour and a half away from the airport, and I saw something in passing the...