When I was in school, I really thought I was going to go into macular disease. But during my third year in our contact lens clinic, there was a patient who had keratoconus and really could not see anything at all.
He didn’t have a job because he couldn’t see. He seemed really depressed, like anyone would if they can’t see very well. And then we ended up fitting him with a corneal gas permeable (GP) lens. Suddenly, he was able to see. I think it was like 20/30 or 20/40. And he was so excited that he could see again, you could see it in his face.
And from then I decided this is such an incredible part of optometry that I really want to look more into it. During my residency, I got lots of exposure to scleral lenses. So that’s kind of how I both got into it.