SnackPak 4 Kids and Transitions Lenses Special

SnackPak 4 Kids is feeding hungry school age kids this summer and we want to help.   We support this program and we would like to team up for July and August 2014 to help them out.  If a patient brings in a 16 oz (small) jar of peanut butter or a box of Pop Tarts for SnackPak (or better yet Both!) and buys a Transitions lens add-on to their spectacle lenses, we will give them 50% off that price of the Transitions‘ add on cost(about a $45 dollar savings).   A collection container is by our front door.

Even if you do not buy any eyewear, you are welcome to drop off your donation of peanut butter or PopTarts at our office.  

It’s not the kid’s fault that they go hungry.   Studies are showing when the kids are not going hungry, they do better in school.  If they can get through school with a good education and not drop out, perhaps the generational poverty cycle can be broken.

If you have any questions about our offer, you can contact our office at 935-2020 or information about the SnackPak program in Dumas at SnackPak 4 Kids Dumas.  Thanks for your support of SnackPak 4 Kids and Dumas Vision Source.

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The following information is from SnackPak 4 Kids website (http://snackpak4kids.org/history)

“It began with 10 hungry students at Will Rogers Elementary School in Amarillo.  Bushland couple Dyron and Kelly Howell had discovered that Amarillo was the largest city west of Dallas without a weekend backpack program. And yet more than 3,200 children in the Amarillo Independent School District relied only on the meals served to them at school for their weekly food. That meant hundreds of children spent their nights and weekends hungry.

Determined to find some way to address this need, the Howells assembled ten bags of food that could be prepared without adult supervision—juice boxes, peanut butter, sandwich snack crackers, breakfast cereal, Pop-Tarts, fruit cups and more. On Friday, September 3, 2010, the first ten Snack Pak 4 Kids recipients were given those bags, which contained enough food to get them through the weekend. The Howells prepared the bags again the next week, and got others involved. Soon the number of children grew, and then the program expanded to other schools. Teachers began seeing academic improvement, better concentration, and higher attendance among SP4K recipients.
As of early 2014, the program has grown to serve 5,200 students in 30 school districts, Amarillo, Booker, Borger, Bushland, Canadian, Clarendon, Clayton NM, Dalhart, Dimmitt, Dumas, Friona, Fritch, Happy, Hereford, Highland Park, Lockney, Panhandle, Pampa, Perryton, River Road, Spearman, San Antonio, Stratford, Sunray, Tahoka, Texhoma, Texline, Tulia, White Deer, and Wildorado.

Every week, hundreds of volunteers pack 14 regular, nutritious items into plastic bags and deliver these bags to participating schools.  At the schools, officials discreetly place these bags in students’ backpacks on Fridays. Students receiving the bags have each been identified by school staff members (counselors, nurses, teachers or principals) as living in a “food-insecure” household—which means these families don’t always know the source of their next meal. The SP4K program feeds each elementary student and any siblings at home not old enough to attend school.

Our new Snack Shak program currently provides food to middle school and high school students, and is expanding quickly.”

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Courtesy of Dumas Vision Source, PLLC and Dr Tory W. Moore, Optometric Glaucoma Specialist and Diplomate of the American Board of Optometry.    Serving the Dumas, Texas,  Moore County and upper Texas Panhandle area for 23 years.   Call (806) 935-2020 for appointment or visit our optical gallery without an appointment.  Visit our website www.visionsource-dumas.com for more information.  Like our Facebook business page:  Dumas Vision Source  and you can also connect on Twitter @eyedocdumas

Tory Moore, OD  – “A Hometown Eye Doctor You Know and Can Trust!”

Acuvue Contacts Change

While Acuvue is not my lens brand of first choice for most people, there are some patients that are more comfortable with that lens’ thinner design.  One of the benefits of using an independent optometrist like myself and not a chain store, mall doc is I can use whatever lens brand I feel is best for the patient no matter what company it is.  So Acuvue has a place in our arsenal of lens brands.

Vistakon, owned by Johnson & Johnson and the manufacturer of Acuvue lenses,  has recently decided to go from selling 6 packs of their lenses to 12 and 24 packs.  So instead of a 3 month supply, they will come in 6 month or 1 year supplies.  All Acuvue lenses are technically 2 week replacement lenses (except the 1-Day Dailies) and I recommend normally to take them all out every night.  I don’t believe they deliver enough oxygen for the cornea to be healthy and have more risk of long-term damage or infection, in my opinion, though the FDA has recommended up to 6 nights wear with Acuvue Oasys.   Of course the FDA has approved lots of drugs that you later see ambulance chasing lawyers advertising to sue for you from damage those same drugs have done.

We realize this will cost more up front to patients but because of basically buying them in bulk, you would actually save more money over the year than buying 8 boxes of 6 packs to get through a year like before.  Just like buying a 24 roll package of paper towels is cheaper from Costco or Sam’s than if you buy 1 roll at Walmart or grocery store since you buy so many in bulk.

WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THIS!

I believe with so many patients over wearing their lenses, the thinking behind this move is to get patients to change them every two weeks like they are supposed to.  You are just defeating the purpose of disposables by not changing them out like you are supposed to.  You change your underwear everyday or your bath water every time don’t you?  Same principle.  Changing your lenses regularly keeps your vision your best, more comfortable and less dry and they can deliver oxygen to your eye more by not being coated with proteins, lipids and calcium from the tears.  Studies done by the industry show patients change their contacts more often like they are supposed to if they have a lot on hand.  So take care of your eyes and replace your contacts on schedule.  Put an alarm in your phone calendar or your Google calendar to remind you if you have to.  You only have two eyes and they have to last you a lifetime.

I want to let our patients know before they need more lenses to be prepared for the difference in Acuvues’ policy.

 

Courtesy of Dumas Vision Source, PLLC and Dr Tory W. Moore, Optometric Glaucoma Specialist and Diplomate of the American Board of Optometry.    Serving the Dumas, Texas,  Moore County and upper Texas Panhandle area for 23 years.   Call (806) 935-2020 for appointment or visit our optical gallery without an appointment.  Visit our website www.visionsource-dumas.com for more information.  Like our Facebook business page:  Dumas Vision Source  and you can also connect on Twitter @eyedocdumas

Tory Moore, OD  – “A Hometown Eye Doctor You Know and Can Trust!”