Welcome to 2012!

Well, we're well into 2012 now - nearly two weeks gone already - and we have been back at work for 3 days. Good to be back.





We have had several patients who broke their glasses over the break, and in one case she had no spare as that had been broken a few weeks before Christmas too! How many spare pairs does one person need?





I hope that you had a relaxing break, as I did, pottering in the garden and reading. Also worked on upping my store of Vitamin D (working on a tan sounds so 1970's).





Hopefully 2012 will be way less challenging than 2011 (or 2010) was. We are already seeing patients who had recalls in either of those years coming in for exams. Everybody knows that that "the buck stops here" with health - no-one will look after you better than you do yourself, and there is a substantial amount of research saying that as folk get older, poor visual and dental health are correlated with poor health in general. We all can "see" that if you see poorly, you are more at risk of falls and falls and broken bones are strongly related to early death or loss of life quality at the very least.





So, lifelong eye care is a good thing. New Year's resolution - book an eye exam if you haven't had one within the last 3 years.