Anita Cranford, OD

Dr. Cranford has been my eye doctor for about ten years now.
Her office is located super-​convenient for me literally at the entrance to my neighborhood, which is admittedly why I chose her in the first place.
This is a family business, with her daughter serving as office manager and son-​in-​law helping as well. You are likely to see the grandchildren playing in the afternoons after school, and they are all simply nice people.
Two years ago, I had what I considered to be a minor problem of some «floaters» that didn’t seem to go away, and called them just to mention in case it was serious. I was immediately asked to come in and examined — long story short, it was serious. I had a detached retina, which can be a huge deal. (As in, blind… or seeing.) I was referred to a retina specialist Dr. Cranford knew and was having surgery just a couple of days later.
I wear gas perm contacts, and I am WAY near sighted. I’ve never had good vision, and my prescription can be tricky I admit. I’m also not as young as I used to be, and pretty much that prescription changes about every two years. One nice thing about Dr. Cranford is that she is a little older than me, so when she says «As we get older…» — I know she is speaking from experience in more ways than one. Call me crazy, but I like that.
I say all this because, sometimes you might think the family owned practice of an optometrist isn’t as good as the care you might get from an opthamologist in, say, a hospital medical center. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with going to an opthamologist in a hospital clinic, either, I’m just saying that sometimes the little guys make really good calls. This place is one of them.