Jennifer Gilby, MD Jennifer Gilby, MD, waited a long time for the right combination of skilled surgeon, predictable surgical procedure, and precise instrumentation before she found the answer to her vision problems. "I developed severe nearsightedness when I was about eight years old, and always relied on eyeglasses, and then contact lenses, to get me through the day," she relates.
As she pursued her career as an obstetrician and gynecologist, Dr. Gilby,
now 30, discovered that, improved vision or not, corrective lenses were problematic,
at best.
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Al Ruechel - TV News Anchor Journalist Al Ruechel knew his vision correction posed special challenges. "I started wearing contacts when I was nineteen years old," says the popular Bay News 9 news anchor, "...hard contacts," he emphasizes, "because I had such a pronounced astigmatism. Soft lenses just couldn't correct for it. After more than twenty years of that kind of abrasion, the corneas of my eyes were really misshapen."
Five years ago, he tried gas permeable contacts, but they caused his eyes
to dry out. "No matter how many enzyme tablets I used on these lenses,
I couldn't keep them clean enough. By three o'clock every afternoon, I was
looking through a haze."
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Jennifer Gilby, MD
Al Ruechel - TV News Anchor
