Greetings from Dr. Cooley! Warning lots of eye talk ahead...

Hello Everyone! It's been a long time, and I must apologize. But after hearing from several people asking about when the next update would be, I thought I better get to it. To be honest, I didn't think very many people read this, so I've gotten busy with life and thus slack in my blogging.

First things first, I am now a doctor! After four long, fast, excruciating, fun, crazy, amazing, difficult, exciting, stressful, interesting, awesome years, I'm an optometrist!

I've started work as the resident optometrist at Cincinnati Eye Institute, and have already gotten one month under my belt. It's a wonderful place to work. Huge too! Every ocular disease specialty one could dream of. Everyday I am learning something new as well as solidifying my clinical skills. For you eye people out there here is a smattering of some of the pathology I have seen: ruptured globe, Boston keratoprosthesis, aniridia, detached DSEK floating in the anterior chamber, erosions through tube shunt patch grafts, crazy snowbanking from pars planitis, fungal keratitis, trauma from a bottle rocket, trauma from alkali burn, trauma from a tree branch...etc. (Enough eye talk everyone else? =) I can't help it, I love eyeballs! It isn't all intense ocular disease though, I see plenty of patients who are doing well in follow up care.

Here is a typical schedule of my week:

Mon	am: Neuro-ophthalmology
	pm: Retina
Tues	am: Cornea/Ant Seg
	pm: General Optometry
Wed	am: Post-ops
	pm: Cataract consults
Thur	am: Cornea/Ant Seg
	pm: General Optometry
Fri	am: Glaucoma
	pm: Uveitis/Inflammatory disease

Ben and I haven't gotten much chance to explore the Cincinnati area. I got sick right after graduation, and though I was well enough to work during the week, I just didn't feel up to exploring on the weekends. We definitely plan to check out more of the city in the months to come.