On behalf of contact lens wearers, I had one final question for my Vancouver-based optometrist, Dr. Janey Yee. I do not wear contacts myself.  I’ve given birth, considered the challenge of walking on coals, and did successfully certify as a scuba diver. Putting a little disc into my eye area, myself? Can’t. Here’s what I found out for you though. 

Dr. Yee, are there special precautions for contact lens wearers in these COVID care times? Any advice for all of us with prescriptive eyewear?

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Finally, we can see light at the end of the tunnel out of our COVID-created caves. Restrictions are being lifted in British Columbia. Vaccines are en route. We can look forward – that is if we can see past the blue light emanating from our ubiquitous screens. After months in front of my work, my social, my edutainment screens, my eyes needed ‘re-hab.’ So, I turned for advice on how we can protect our eyes and improve our overall performance to my personal optometrist in Vancouver, Dr. Janey Yee.

As a writer and content creator tied to my screens, my eyes are engaged, a lot. Those work hours can send a message of fatigue to the brain at the entry point, the eyes. It can also filter a false sense of overall fatigue to the rest of the body when I most need to feel focused and energized. To top it off, like most of us, I was Zoomed-Skyped-Google Hang’d –Out!

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Care of our eyes and preservation of our sight is essential if we wish to live and work well in our current tech-connected world. Plus, our year in the safety of our COVID caves, called on our eyes to perform to the max as we all huddled around any number of blue light-emitting screens. Combined, they kept us sane, social, and solvent, hopefully. Now, how to care for this precious resource?

You might start, as I did, with a comprehensive, eye exam at your optometrist. In this post, Dr. Janey Yee @180 Optometry and Eye Wear answered questions I wanted to share with you about issues and eye care that we must know, given the intensity of screen use we are committed to since COVID accelerated our dependency on them.   

A colleague laughs at my COVID-inspired code for too much time spent creating content for clients, sitting in on video meetings, and researching online. I call it frying my eyeballs. I’m not proud of it. I do my best to keep the cookery to a minimum. But what can we do?  

No matter your choice of device or the technology we use to work, to socialize, to learn, or to seek escapist entertainment – we can’t stop. Can we?

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This isn’t a blog about resolutions, or grand visions or a post on lists of lists.

It’s a start. That’s the best you can do on any intention or mission.

It’s a conversation with myself and I’m sharing, But hey, YOU might find practical tips embedded in the posts. After all, I am a writer by profession. So, you can expect there to be, even unconsciously, education – information – and honourable mentions of techniques in overcoming paralysis and procrastination by summoning creativity and resilience. Not too tall an order I’ve written myself into, eh?

Just start.

And there’s no plan unless you count sitting down and doing something about that intention, daily.

So, while I might brainstorming with a mind map down the road- something you can do at a moment’s notice and by yourself, no matter what the time of day or night, the call to action for now is simply to START. I’ll try not to overthink the daily posts and just let myself be motivated by what comes my way each day.

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