advanced procedures

from Healthy Living September 2013

REGULAR EXERCISE EQUALS SUCCESS

For the most advanced and comprehensive eye care available right here and close to home, the name to know is Lake Eye. Each of our three state-of-the-art offices features everything from a full-service optical department with stunning designer eyewear to the most advanced treatments for glaucoma, macular degeneration, even sagging eyelids.

Our team of board-certified ophthalmologists is highly trained and experienced with groundbreaking procedures. In fact, we were the first local facility to offer the latest in laser cataract surgery that not only banishes cataracts, it even corrects astigmatism in one quick, safe surgery.

surgery, offering ReSTOR®, Toric® and Tecnis® multifocal lens implantation.

complete line of designer and specialty glasses and contacts. - coma, corneal diseases, diabetes, eyelid problems and macular degeneration. cosmetic procedures. Our skilled and caring doctors and staff will tend to every vision need, all in one comfortable place. We’re confident that once you meet us, you’ll know you picked the right partner for a lifetime of healthy vision. Drop by and see what you’ve been missing.

Accepting new patients!

farms are grateful, Well, not exactly. Yes, they work, are able to experience first hand where their food comes from, and gain other tangible, character-building lessons along the way. But they also ask why they can have three barn kittens and four. They still complain about the menu. They still don’t preserve every sticker from school or savor every party favor. refuse to give up the good fight though. I refuse to giveand do what is easy, what incurs less wailing and fewer scenes of embarrassment in public. My gut tells me their happiness can’t trump character building. There must be ways teach children gratitude in country. do become weary fighting fight though.

Which is why on a recent through the McDonald’s drive-thru I gave in and bought four individual happy meals, complete with annoying plastic toys. As I handed the meals out, kids looked at me wideeyed, disbelieving and no doubt wondering whom this was impersonating their mother.

“You mean, we get… we have our own drink?” daughter whispered incredulously. “What?” my boys piped in realizing this unprecedented turn of dinner events. “We don’t have to share? We get a toy?”

And when they all cheered and declared it “the best day ever!” I smiled — with happiness gratitude.

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At the 2013 Florida Magazine Association’s Charlie Awards, Akers Media, the proud publisher of Healthy Living and Lake & Sumter Style magazines, brought home 11 awards for writing and design excellence.

• BEST DEPARTMENT (ALL CONSUMER MAGAZINES)

• BEST HUMOR

• BEST ILLUSTRATION (ALL CONSUMER MAGAZINES)

• BEST SINGLE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY (ASSOCIATION)

• BEST SINGLE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY (ALL CONSUMER MAGAZINES)

• BEST FEATURE HEADLINES (ALL CONSUMER MAGAZINES)

• BEST COVER (LESS THAN 20K CIRCULATION)

• BEST OVERALL MAGAZINE (LESS THAN 20K CIRCULATION)

• BEST OVERALL DESIGN (ALL CONSUMER MAGAZINES)

• BEST TABLE OF CONTENTS (LESS THAN 50K CIRCULATION)

BEST USE OF TYPOGRAPHY (LESS THAN 20K CIRCULATION) BEST DEPARTMENT (ALL CONSUMER MAGAZINES) MAGAZINE LOVE AND JAIL TIME an insatiable appetite for interrupting phone calls, nature calls, and thoughts, have found children serve very important purposes. The most obvious utility of children, of course, is that of the excuse — “I was really hoping to come in and work on that obscure national holiday, but, you know… the kids.” Maybe lesser purpose for children is that as conduits of genetics and the propagation of the human species. Recently though, I’ve found a whole new use for the keeping Mommy out of jail. love Target. really The prices at Target may not always be the cheapest, but the people who shop there wear shoes. spend enough time in my people running around, civilization. Yes, my Target Target so much will venture into the great jungle of retail with all four of my children and blisteringly hot summer day. was aware the tactical effect of the wonderful arctic air was to put me into state of physical bliss and disorient me from remembering the shopping list in my purse, savored the moment. Then yelled at my boys for playing in the shoppers trying to exit. If was on the verge of remembering my shopping list when entered Target, the “dollar aisle,” strategically located 10 feet from the door, quickly squelched any remaining recollection. From great retail Mecca, to spend exorbitant amounts of money on… well, I’m not really sure. do know exited Target with a receipt longer than my 3-year-old making me feel herded my caravan back into their car seats, trying not to brand them with the searing air so they wouldn’t cook and my massive cartfull of brand new Target crap. Four heat strokes later, placed the last of my goods — the frozen pizza, And there, setting on the undercarriage of the cart, was TIFFANY ROACH

Pretty In Pink

The South Lake Hospital Foundation and the Central Florida Afﬁliate of Susan G. Komen recently joined forces to organize Pink Week. The goal of Pink Week was to raise money so women with low incomes in South Lake County can receive free mammograms. This weeklong event featured a 5k run/walk, bicycle race on cross country trails, kid’s fun run, and sprint triathlon.

1. Kailyn Couch

2. Hemant Hariprashad

3. Andrew Foster and Alex Georgiev

4. Sandra Gallego, Melissa Gallego, Inelia Semonick, and Mireya Seminick

5. Emily Cooper, Jodi Hovius, Ulrika Peroni, and Nicole Casavant

6. Rosa Hamilton and Christina Caballero

Ice Is So Cool

Residents of the tri-county area had an opportunity to tour the Institute of Cardiovascular Excellence’s new Summerfield office during an open house. They also met with the practice’s newest practitioners. The Summerfield location offers medical care from the Institute of Cardiovascular Excellence, the Institute of Medical Excellence, and The Limbstitute. By providing services under one roof, patients can expect a seamless continuum of care from experienced, compassionate physicians.