See for life campaign

We started the See for Life Campaign in our Vancouver clinic in April 2011 in response to a story on Global News about a photographer that had suffer permanent vision loss from glaucoma.  He had been getting automated sight tests from an optician for years.  He never thought about the difference between that an a doctor's comprehensive eye exam.  Unfortunately, when he realized that he had serious vision problems, it was too late to do anything about the vision he had lost.  When glaucoma takes your vision, you never get it back.

We realized that a lot of people don't think much about their eye health until its too late.  We wanted to change that. 

To motivate people to take their eye health seriously and to make it easier for them to seek out the proper care from a doctor of optometry and avoid the photographer's unfortunate fate we decided that we would give people complementary, custom made, prescription eye-glasses just for doing what they should do every year: get an annual eye exam from an eye doctor. 

In the first year of See for Life, just under one thousand people have participated in the free prescription eye-wear offer just for taking responsibility for their health. 

Many of these people were diagnosed with early stage glaucoma - early enough to stop the disease before it did permanent damage.  Other people were diagnosed with diabetes, multiple sclerosis, eye movement disorders, high cholesterol and and other eye and systemic diseases. 

See for Life has been a success and it continues.  We look forward to helping many more people live healthy, see clearly and beat eye disease.

 

 

free eye glasses

 

free eye glasses

 



An eye exam saves lives

 

 

An eye exam saves mom's vision

 

 

 

One in five children has a visoin disroder

 

 

 

An eye exam is one of the best things you can do for your overall health.

An doctor's eye exam is one of the best things you can do for your overall health.  It can even save your life. Brain tumors, cancer and diabetes are often diagnosed first in the eyes - early enough to initiate treatment which could save your life.  Remember, the earlier we catch a disease the easier it is to beat it.

 

To protect your heart, get an eye exam

To protect your heart, get an eye exam!

"Get an eye exam" to protect your heart  - on Good Morning America - April 2012