A Lifetime of Eye Health Begins with a Simple Eye Exam

Don’t wait until something is obviously wrong with your eyes to get them checked. Most eye issues can be prevented, detected, and treated before they get to the point of long-term damage.

Benefits of an annual eye exam include:

1. Catching eyesight changes early-on and correcting them.

Gregory Valle, OD

2. Testing your visual acuity, discovering issues such as nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness, astigmatism, color blindness, poor hand-eye coordination or visual perception and difficulties with the eyes’ ability to work together for tracking, teaming, and focusing.

3. Detecting glaucoma in its early stages, when there is still time to act before it worsens.

4. Identification of headaches, eye strain, fatigue, dryness, discomfort, or any visual issues.

5. Flagging potential problems with certain medications that cause vision problems and helping prevent further damage.

SUMMERTIME AT LAST!

WELCOME TO THE BIGGEST ISSUE OF WILLAMETTE LIVING WE’VE EVER DONE! WHEW… THIS MAKES ME HAVE A WHOLE NEW APPRECIATION FOR THE SEPTEMBER VOGUE ISSUE, WITH 720 PAGES! HOW DO THEY EVEN DO THAT!? I CAN’T IMAGINE.

Each year, my favorite season is marked by planting tomatoes and cucumbers in my backyard. That task has been completed, and I’m looking forward to everything summer, including delicious salads! I have a long-time childhood friend who was in part responsible for the first genetically engineered (flavorless) tomato, I’ll have to rib him about that again when we’re taking a little break together in Sisters. He now knows that was a bad move, but that doesn’t stop me.

While you’re enjoying a little summer down time, browse our Best of the Valley winners! As always, the counting took a while, but we soldiered through, and the winners are listed in this issue! Congrats to our perennial winners like The Natty Dresser, Inkwell Home Store, and Sybaris, and welcome to our new winners like Grazing Oregon Charcuterie, and Precision Medical Aesthetics.