Optometrists
Eyes and Ears
About Eyes and Ears
Vision and hearing tend to change slowly enough that people notice the workaround before they notice the loss: holding a menu further away, turning the television up a notch, asking for a sentence to be repeated in a busy room. Eyes and Ears can be found at 2900 Pandosy Street, in a building shared with two other businesses, a short distance south of downtown Kelowna.
A visit in this line of work usually begins with measurement rather than product. An eye examination checks how well each eye focuses and also looks at the health of the eye itself, which is why the appointment can matter even when your current glasses still seem fine. The name puts hearing alongside sight, and a hearing check follows similar logic, mapping which frequencies have faded before anyone starts talking about devices. Things worth asking when you book: how long the appointment runs, whether drops that blur your vision will be used, and how much of the visit provincial coverage or an extended health plan will pick up, since the answer differs by age and by employer.
Pandosy is one of the easier districts in Kelowna to reach without a long drive, sitting between downtown and the Lower Mission on the lake side of the city. If your eyes have been dilated you should not drive afterward, and here that is less of a problem than it would be from a hillside address, because the beaches, the shops and the bus routes along Pandosy Street give you somewhere pleasant to wait out the hour.
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In the Pandosy neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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