Hi everyone – Mitch Teplitsky here. I’ve been Dr. Tracy’s client forever (well, nearly 20 years). And for the past 2 years, his web marketing consultant.
Usually Dr. Tracy writes his own blogs and newsletters. But this month I wanted to share my own story, about how Dr. Tracy helped my wife Doris wear contact lenses for the first time.
Doris is from Peru, and had never tried contacts before. Last summer we visited friends on Cape Cod, where Doris left her glasses on the beach. Lost at sea.
We hopped on our bikes to the nearby optometrist at Walmart, where Doris figured she’d try contacts.
The optometrist did a thorough exam and fitted her with a reputable trial brand. But Doris couldn’t tolerate them. Her eyes got red and irritated.
Did this mean Doris couldn’t wear contacts? Was it some pre-disposed condition? Maybe the type or brand of contacts wasn’t right? The store didn’t have other trial brands in stock to try.
Having edited several blogs about contacts with Dr. Tracy, I decided to place a call to The Man himself.
“Fitting contact lens is as much an art as a science,” Dr. Tracy explained. “I have to really examine the health of Doris’s eyes, her history, and then try to match her up with the right lenses — and the right solution. It takes time. And some people just aren’t meant for contacts at all, their eyes can’t produce enough tears to support comfortable wear.”
Doris saw Dr. Tracy upon returning to New York. In fact it took several exams and fittings to hone in on a system of lenses and solution that worked comfortably. We discovered that Doris’s eyes were unusually sensitive, and worked best with a chemical-free solution.
It’s one thing to edit and read Dr. Tracy’s blogs about the art of fitting contacts, but another thing to witness it up close on one’s wife! I was grateful. And it’s nice to have a doctor who takes such pride in his craft.
“After many years of fitting contact lenses, I find it’s very satisfying to fit someone successfully, who was unable to find a comfortable lens in the past, sometimes having tried many times.”
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I have extremely hard to fit eyes because of my flat cornea. The doc tried to fit me with that free trial hand out pair of Acuvue Oasis soft contacts and it didn’t work. I couldn’t see out of them, everything was blurry. I ended up ordering hard gas permeable contact lenses by Boston XO for hard to fit contact wearers. Their rigid shape offers clearer vision because it does not move when your eye blinks. The hard plastic material does not suck moisture from your eyeballs and therefore is good for dry eyes. They can be made to order in specific proportions and curvatures. I’ll have to see how they work since I’ve tried multiple brands that didn’t work.