When you’re a kid and wear glasses, you hear all kinds of jokes: four-eyes, blind as a bat, guys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses. As we get older, glasses styles evolve, contacts become not so scary, and our peers mature past teasing insults–I hope. And while playground tormenting is a thing of the past, there are new drawbacks and daily annoyances to wearing contacts or glasses that plague our adult lives.

Problems With Prescription Eyeglasses and Contact Lenses

Fumbling for glasses in the middle of the night and blurry peripheral vision are all too familiar complaints for most people with poor vision; contact lense wearers often suffer from dry eyes or increased eye sensitivity. And it seems like everyone has lost a contact lense or broken a pair of eyeglass frames at the least opportune time.

Meet Max the Mole

“Blind as a bat” might be the go-to joke for heckling the vision-impaired, but moles’ eyesight–or lack thereof–rivals that of bats. Which brings us to Viso Lasik Medspas latest patient, Max the Mole.

Last Thursday, December 3, 2009, the VISO LASIK MEDPAS in Wellington, Florida, celebrated the spirit of giving back with their annual Holiday Peppermint party. Toasting to a successful year of vision and beauty excellence, more than 75 guests attended the open-to-public gathering which kicked-off at 5:00 p.m. and extended into the evening hours.

The Guide Dog Foundation

This year, the party benefited The Guide Dog foundation, with ten percent of the evening’s proceeds going to the organization that helps train and place guide dogs for the blind. Three puppies-in-training from The Guide Dog Foundation For The Blind made a special appearance and a heart-warming addition to the evening, as they greeted guests and representatives nearby answered questions about the foundation.