By WENDI WINTERS, For The Capital
By WENDI WINTERS, For The Capital
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
08/13/06
In what's become almost a weekly occurrence at Brilliant Eyecare at the Clock Tower Place in Annapolis, a 42-year-old man wanders in thinking he needs glasses, only to discover he has glaucoma.
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Dr. Lily Im, right, an ophthalmologist at The Glaucoma Center in Annapolis, demonstrates a tonometer on administrative associate Maria Bowman-Carroll. A tonometer is a device that measures the pressure inside the eye by blowing a puff of air onto the eye.
"My eyesight has been getting blurry the past couple years," he informed optometrist Dr. Andrew Servinsky. "Maybe glasses will help."
The doctor quickly discovers the man has never had an eye exam. Worse, though he drove to the Forest Drive location, he was legally blind. He had glaucoma.
"He'd lost his peripheral vision and had a small island of vision central," said Dr. Servinsky. "If he looks at you face-to-face, at arm's...
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