April 2012 Blog Posts (8)

Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO, FCOVD-A will now be seeing patients at Lyons Family Eye Care on Chicago's north side starting in May 2012

Hi,  I went for my second assessment for VT yesterday.  My amblyopic (right) eye is at 20/200.  My optometrist thinks I can improve this acuity to 20/70 at minimum and then we can work on the convergence.  She says I may need a prism lens.

That said, in order to work on my acuity she suggests occlusion therapy for 2 hours per day for a month after which we can evaluate the progress.  She suggests video games such as Tetris.  I am wondering is their another option I can add to this -…

The following is a copy of a post from my FB page. This was an effort to educate my friends and family about what's going on with my eyes - I wanted to add it here too.

My vision started changing at the beginning of 2011. I noticed that it was difficult to keep my eyes focused on the same thing, at the same time. By July of the same year, my eyes were crossed significantly. When I looked through my…

Blind! I was told I would lose my eyesight in my 20's due to Keratoconus. Now at age 54, I have better vision than ever before in my life. I would love to be a guest on your blog / interview show, if you feel my message is a good fit for your audience.

In my 20's, I was diagnosed with potentially blinding genetic eye condition. My future was painted in the bleakest possible terms. When the ophthalmologist told me it was genetic and there was nothing I could do, in fear and…

Just wanted to share this. 

When I was in my early adolescence (some 45 years or so ago) I had a dream that I now connect to the whole issue of 3-D vision.  

I had recently been evaluated for B.V  and given the facts:  I didn't use my eyes the way most people do, so I didn't have depth perception.  And that's why I had trouble doing things like catching things and going down stairs.  

I didn't think much about it then.  At least not consciously. 

My family lived…

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