Gateway Vision Inc. Beaches

01/17/2024

Please welcome
Drs. Jay Harrelson, Amanda Kovacs, & Matthew Sutton to the practice with Drs. Rick Grimshaw & Mark Popp.

12/18/2023

06/23/2022

Staff loving new uniforms today!!

06/21/2022

Fireworks Eye Safety
By Dan Gudgel

The numbers are clear: Fireworks are dangerous and July 4 is an especially risky time for eye injuries. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's most recent annual fireworks injury report (PDF) fireworks caused 12 deaths and 10,000 injuries in 2019. Three-quarters of the fireworks injuries treated in emergency rooms happened between mid-June and mid-July.
The most recent Consumer Product Safety Commission report found that 15% of fireworks injuries were eye injuries. In the most severe cases, fireworks can rupture the globe of the eye, cause chemical and thermal burns, corneal abrasions and retinal detachment — all of which can cause permanent eye damage and vision loss.
Children and young adults are frequent victims. Children age 15 and under accounted for 36% of the total injuries, according to the commission's report. And half of the injuries requiring an emergency room visit were to people age 20 or younger.
Even sparklers can be dangerous, as they burn at more than 2,000 degrees Farenheit. Sparklers were responsible for 1,200 of the injuries in the latest report, and a sparkler mishap caused one of the fireworks deaths reported in 2017.
The people injured by fireworks aren't necessarily handling the explosives themselves. In fact, 65% of people injured by fireworks were bystanders, according to another study. The statistics don't lie. Children and people not handling fireworks themselves are in as much danger as the people actually lighting fireworks.

06/18/2022

Happy Picnic Day!

06/14/2022

Look closely at the painting. First, stare intently at the top flag, the one in green, orange and black. Focus your gaze on the white dot in the middle of the image, and keep staring at it for a solid 60 seconds. Then, close your eyes briefly and lower your gaze to focus immediately on the black dot at the center of the gray flag painted below it.
What do you see?

Magically, as you lower your focus to the bottom flag, a familiar red, white and blue color scheme will appear to float faintly atop the gray flag. (If it doesn’t work the first time, try again, focusing even more intently on the green, orange and black flag.)

06/10/2022

Please pardon our dust… renovation and expansion of our Beaches location is underway 😊!

06/06/2022

Remind your children....

Suzy the Sparkler and Freddie the Firecracker sure are a blast. But is that always a good thing? EyeSmart’s public service video gives you the blinding truth...

06/02/2022

Having fun with some new sunglasses 😎!!

05/02/2022

5 FACTS ABOUT VISION THAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW

*No way to transplant eyeballs, yet

*Doctors have not yet discovered a way to transplant an eyeball as the optic nerve that connects the eye to the brain is too sensitive to reconstruct.

*No tears for babies
Newborn babies have no tears when they cry and tears only begin to appear after four to 13 weeks.

*Millions of blind people
Approximately 39 million people in the world are blind and six times that amount are impaired visually.

*Eyes with different colors
Some people are born with each of their eyes a different color, a condition known as heterochromia.

*Blindspot
Our eyes have a blind spot in the back of the retina that is not visible to us as both eyes work together to fill it in.

04/17/2022

This "Easter egg" graphic is an example of the Munker illusion. The background ovals are actually all the same color.

04/04/2022

Did your parents or grandparents joke that they couldn't read the type in a book or on the back of a medicine bottle because their arms were suddenly too short? Once you pass age 40, you just may find yourself complaining about the same problem. Called "presbyopia," the condition affects your ability to see near objects clearly.

How Presbyopia Affects Your Vision

Aging causes many changes in your body, from gray hairs to stiffening of the lenses inside your eyes. Located behind the iris inside your eye, the clear, disc-shaped lens focuses light rays on to the retina at the back of your eye. The retina converts the rays into signals and sends them to the brain. Once the brain receives the signals, it transforms them into recognizable images.
The shape of your lens constantly changes to allow you to view objects at various distances. The shape-shifting ensures that light rays are correctly focused on your retina no matter how near or far the object or image. Although the lenses are very flexible when you're younger, they stiffen with age. When this happens, it becomes difficult to focus on close objects. As a result, words on a page or screen look blurry and out of focus.

Presbyopia isn't a sign of serious eye disease and happens to practically everyone, even people who've had perfect vision their whole lives. Although you'll still be able to see objects in the distance clearly, your near vision will suffer as you grow older.

03/20/2022

“Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” — Jessica Harrelson