The 100-year-old optometrist will see you now
NORTHBROOK, Ill. - Matea Peric knew her optometrist was elderly.
He walks slowly, and his face is grooved under salt-and-pepper gray hair.
She thought maybe he was 80 years old? 90? But she found out one day, while talking with the office's receptionists, that her estimate was a bit off.
Dr. Daniel Nast turned 100 in February.
Yet, twice a week, his wife still drives him to and from the Mind-Eye Institute in Northbrook where he sees patients, continuing a career that started about 75 years ago. He works at another practice on Saturdays.
"I don't think it's unusual," Nast said of continuing to practice now that he's a centenarian. "But everyone else does."
