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Cataract | Cloudy Vision

Claude Monet’s paintings make me feel like I’m at a picnic in a park in Giverny on a beautiful spring day with brie, rosemary bread, pinot noir, and a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich. (Sorry, it is my comfort food— didn’t mean to ruin the moment.)
Sounds perfect, doesn’t it? I wish I [...]

Sicca | “How Dry I Am”

Ricky Gervais at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards was anything but dry– well, except for a few dry martinis, I’m sure.
Wow, now I like humor, but I thought at times he went a liiiiitle too far to insult his guests. To paraphrase Kathy Griffin, it’s more polite to make fun of celebrities behind their backs. [...]

Contact Lens Disasters

The Acropolis is one of the most amazing places I’ve been. As a college student, I went to Greece on a three-week Classics Studies Tour in 1987, and Athens was hot and polluted even back then. Sweat made my glasses slide off my little Asian nose like toddlers down a water park ride.
I didn’t [...]

Cataracts: Smoggy Vision

Claude Monet’s paintings make me feel like I’m at a picnic in a park in Giverny on a beautiful spring day with brie, rosemary bread, pinot noir, and a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich. (Sorry, it is my comfort food— didn’t mean to ruin the moment.)
Sounds perfect, doesn’t it? I wish I [...]

Retinal Detachment: floaters can be a bad sign

I tell my patients that Im naturally blond with blue eyes. I just color my hair black and put on brown contact lenses so I dont look like an albino Korean-American man. Why does it seem to me everyone in Hollywood wants to be blue-eyed and blond?
Eyes are supposed to be the window to [...]