Use your FSA for LASIK in 2022 – Unlimited Balance Carryover
Every winter holiday, we get an influx of patients who want to come in to use their HSA’s or FSA’s towards their LASIK procedures before the year ends. Well, there are new changes that affect Flex Spending Accounts or “FSA’s” that will give a lot of our patients a great option! First – a quick…
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Cataract Surgery as an RN: I Was More a Patient Than a Nurse That Day
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Cyndi’s mother is 90 years old and has not had cataract surgery yet. Cyndi never thought she would have a cataract and that it would need to be removed so quickly. What made Cyndi really feel the need to remove her cataracts? “The two worse things I complained about were night driving and depth perception. Mostly…
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Callie’s Road To LASIK: This Will Forever Be One of the Best Days of My Life
Callie, an optician at a great optical and optometric practice in College Station, the Eye Care Center, had LASIK surgery with Dr. Stephen Slade on May 19th. Callie shared her entire journey with us on the Eye Care Center’s Instagram page, from pre op to post op, she walked us through her ‘Road to LASIK’….
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Seeing Brighter: What Cataracts In Children Have Taught Us
Cataracts are important to more than just vision, at any age. An article published in American Journal of Ophthalmology by Moug Al-Makri et al., found that there’s more than a fourfold increased risk of anxiety disorders and twofold increased risk of neurodevelopment delay in children with a cataract compared to children without a cataract, even after…
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LASIK Patient Memories: Slade & Baker Staff Blog
We decided to poll the very people who get to spend time with our patients every day and who are a huge part of the magic that happens during LASIK days at Slade & Baker Vision: our beloved staff! We share these with each other while at lunch or in the office, but time passes,…
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The First LASIK Surgery in the US: An Interview with Dr. Stephen Slade
As staff members in a clinical practice where the FIRST doctor who did LASIK in the US works, there are several questions we have wondered about in the last several years, and we finally sat Dr. Stephen Slade down to get some answers to our questions! We are delighted to share this insightful interview…
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How Do You Know If You Have A Cataract?
If you answer yes to any or most of the questions above, you may have a cataract. Sometimes, the beginning of a cataract may not even be noticeable, and your eye doctor will tell you that you are forming cataracts before you even realize their effects on your vision! It’s also important to know that…
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Why Does My Eyelid Twitch?
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We have all been there. That annoying twitch. Why does it happen? For many of us, it happens on and off. We get this question at Slade & Baker Vision quite a bit – so we wanted to address it in our blog. Your eyelid twitch is referred to as an ‘Eyelid spasm’ and most…
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Cataract Surgery Can Help Prevent Alzheimer’s and Dementia
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A new article in the New York Times this week sheds some new, really exciting light, on another bad thing that cataract surgery helps patients avoid. We once wrote a blog about a study which proved that Cataract Surgery statistically helped patients avoid falling, and therefore, avoid injuries, so this new study – sharing that…
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If I have Dry Eyes, then WHY are they watery?
Why are my eyes watery? What causes watery eyes? Why are my eyes tearing? My eyes are really wet, how can they be dry? If I have Dry Eyes, then WHY are they watery or tearing? We get these questions a lot. If you are experiencing excessive tearing or feel like you have sand in…
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