Hope everyone’s summer is going well, hard to believe July already. Big #1 birthday for Shawn’s daughter, Malaney. She is so cute and already walking and already 1. Time flies. Also, Judy’s granddaughter, Julyasa, is celebrating her #4. She and Malaney share the same birthday, a very special day in all our hearts.
Protect your eyes during the summer. Be sure to wear sunglasses with protective coating and always wear protective eye wear when working in the yard or doing house projects. Unfortunately, we see way to many preventable eye accidents.
Dr. Richard Berkowitz will be starting to see patients in our office one to two days a week beginning late July. Dr. Berkowitz had a very large practice in the valley and moved to Austin to be close to his college children. We are happy to have him on staff.
Dr. Nicolau will be leaving the end of July. We wish him the very best on his new endeavors.
Also, new to the practice is a recall and information system called Smile Reminders. Some of you may have already gotten a reminder. Sorry if anyone was inconvenienced. Once we become more familiar we will share all its great properties.
Vacation time at the Howerton Eye Center! Judy and her sisters have spent some beach time down in the Corpus area. Shawn and her family are going to be cruising the Caribbean. Her 11 month old is walking!!! No walking the plank little one. Dr. Howerton and Jane will be going to Country Jam up north. Diane and her family are planning a D.C. adventure. Sounds like fun for all.
The IOL Master was delivered and installed last week. This new state of the art piece of equipment allows for a measurement of the length of the eye. This calculation is crucial in determining the power of the implanted intraocular lens. The intraocular lens (IOL) is the "new" lens when performing cataract surgery or refractive lens implants.
The cool thing about this equipment is the eye is not touched. This is great for all the squeezer!!! And people who are fearful of having their eye touched. We have currently being using the immersion A-Scan and this is still the method of choice for extremely dark cataracts or eyes with retinal pathology. The IOL Master and the immersion A-Scan are the 2 premium methods of choice for IOL measurements. Go to the box marked cataracts for more information.
UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS AT THE HOWERTON EYE CENTER .
MAY 23rd - Fred Posas June 1st - Theresa Bischoff Both would be blown away with any of you calling to wish them Happy Birthday!!
Dr. Howerton, Deborah, Linda, Theresa and Shawn hit the Windy City for "The Eye Convention" 2008 did not disappoint. The city itself was great and warmed to 68! But the sights made up for the cold.
Most important was the knowledge and the enthusiastic attitude that Dr. Howerton and the staff returned to Austin . New equipment bought included the IOL Master, surgical instruments and the updated Nidek status. Everyone was buzzing about the incredible opportunity the upgrade on the Nidek will offer to the Lasik world. The most difficult cases seem doable. The research was the talk of the convention. This machine is topographically guided and is truly an individual treatment. It has received FDA approval just working on the wording.
Also, kudos to Shawn she did 3, that is right 3 presentations at ASOA. There was standing room only in her talks. Also, she was semi stalked with people wanting to pick her brain.
Theresa has great pictures and hopefully we can get her to share. Next year is in San Francisco but they are really going to have to get their act together to upstage the Chicago experience.
I mean what can I say, LASIK has changed the way I live my life.
I was constantly in a debate to between wearing my glasses, wearing contacts or risking it and going with my horrible vision.
The Howerton Eye Center changed all of that. I now do whatever I want, when I want to and the last of my worries is my site. I don’t have to make a decision between sunglasses or glasses, swimming or hanging out on the boat.
I want to be able to tell you that I battled through the recovery, finally found my way to good site but there’s no need to lie.
I was up and at it in a couple of hours. I had a couple of follow-up appointments that flew by with the good folks at Howerton.
As a former athlete who has been under the knife more than a few times, this waqs by far the easiest to prepare for, manage through and recover from.
Howerton Eye Center Staff to attend International Eye Conference
The Staff from the Howerton Eye Center will be attending the 2008 ASCRS•ASOA Symposium and Congress being held April 4-9 at the McCormick Place West Building in Chicago, Illinois. This conference is a great opportunity to catch up on the lastest technology available in eye care.
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