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Merry Christmas
Wishing all our clients and friends a Very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
Have a great time,
From Ian, Neasa, Sandra and Victoria.
(The fire is lit, but with teenagers in the house, it my be a while longer until Christmas actually starts here – ?Maybe they will be awake by 1pm?)
Christmas Opening Hours.
Christmas Time, again.
WooHoo!
As usual we are going to be closed between Christmas and New Year, our excuse being that we can get no deliveries until the New Year. Though that is actually true!
This is the only time I am personally guaranteed to get some time off, and that time at home is very precious, particularly this year.
We will be having a staff Christmas meal on Friday 21st in the afternoon, so we will be closing at 1pm, or perhaps shortly after? on that Friday, and we will be gone until January 3rd.
(Scottish people are genetically unable to work on January 2nd).
We may see you in the Bailie Hotel on Friday afternoon, but after that we will see you in 2019.
Wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays to be more politically correct?
Ho Ho Ho!
Happy Holidays from Ian, Neasa , Sandra and Victoria.
(once again, in alphabetical order!)
Many thanks to all of our clients – no business is anything without you, after all!
We wish you all a happy and healthy Christmas, and onwards to year 2019 and beyond!
Ian.
Please, please remember to NOT sleep in your contact lenses- it may have been a great night out, but your next day or two in hospital may not be so great? It is not worth it – for more information in case of an emergency, please click this link.
Thursday 29th November
As you will know Thursday is our late night – we are usually open until 8.30pm.
Due to staff holidays and a parent teacher meeting at the Bailiborough Community School we will be closing at 5.30pm this coming Thursday 29th.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused – I have no option.
Ian
Telephone issues
Apologies to anyone trying to contact us this early afternoon – Neasa became aware of internet issues at roughly 12 pm, but neither of us noticed that we had no dial tone! Perhaps we did have a dial tone then, but I was back in after a trip to collect a child in Cavan and there was no dial tone. Calling the line did nothing inside, but seemed to ring normally at my mobile end.
If we did not answer the phone to you – it didn’t ring!
Tried to contact Eir by phone, but faults only seem to occur in normal business hours – Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm. The fault has been reported online, but we have no idea when they might get round to fixing this.
If there is no luck by Monday morning, we will advise a different contact method.
Again, apologies.
Ian
AMD Awareness Week 2018
Once again, it is national AMD Awareness Week – September 10th to 16th.
As members of the Association of Optometrists, we will be offering AMD (Age related Macular Degeneration) screening free of charge in practice next week. AMD used to be called ARMD, which given its actual meaning still makes more sense to me!
Please call us to book a slot if you wish to avail, but please be aware that this is not a free eye examination, it is a free AMD screening. Also please remember that we are fitting these checks into our already busy diary, so you might not get the exact time that you would like. If you just arrive, please don’t be annoyed if we ask you to come back later – we are doing this as part of a national awareness campaign, which is more for your benefit than ours!
If you are entitled to a government funded full eye examination, either due to Medical Card or PRSI entitlement, you would be much better to get the full test done, rather than this “freebie”. By all means have this freebie too, but this is not a substitute for a full test, but given what I said here, even a full test is perhaps not enough, due to the speed of onset of the most devastating type of AMD?
Every year we have callers who have no particular interest in Age Related Macular Degeneration, but a very strong interest in getting something for nothing. We will happily accommodate them, but everyone, please understand that the staff will advise you to have a full test rather than the very reduced screening offered – if the full exam is still not going to cost you, why not avail of that instead?
If you have had a recent eye examination and everything was OK, and you have no issues now, you likely will not benefit from this screening, but do ensure that each eye is distortion free and seeing as well as you are used to – you should do this on a weekly or fortnightly basis. If not, you should get your eyes checked as soon as possible, ideally in the establishment you normally attend – they best know your eyes after all!
(And you do trust them, don’t you?)
Ian
AMD Awareness Week 2018 10 September 2018 – 16 September 2018
AMD Awareness Week 2018 ‘SightSee With Me’ will take place from the 10th-16th September. This year marks the beginning of a new decade for the awareness campaign, as we mark the 11th anniversary of the multi eye care stakeholder group initiative, supported by the Irish College of Ophthalmologists.
The aim of the awareness week is to create greater public awareness and understanding of AMD, and encourage those aged 50 and over to get their eyes tested regularly.
Further information on AMD Awareness Week 2018 activities and testing locations will feature shortly on the ICO website www.eyedoctors.ie and www.amd.ie.
