As an optometrist, these past six months have brought on many new challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic. I wanted to write some blogs in multiple parts to help inform and help my patients and anyone else out there that may be struggling at this time. In Part 1, I want to talk about eye diseases. I am seeing much more eye disease than I saw pre-pandemic. There are 5 in particular I want to address. The first three eye diseases, Herpes Simplex, Herpes Zoster, and Central Serous