a bit of good news

[miriam_e]

Went to an eye specialist yesterday. He thinks that although it looks similar to macular degeneration, what I have is not that, but a viral infection in the retina of my right eye. He believes it will continue to worsen for a while as it runs its course, then quit leaving some permanent damage, but at least without blinding me. Best of all he doubts it will spread to the other eye. While this is not really great news, it is certainly way better than the prospect of going blind in the near future. Yay?

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Ask the Lions

[revbob2.livejournal.com]

The Lions Club -- one of those mostly-men's clubs like the Rotary and Optimists and so on are very big on visual health, and have run eyeglasses programs for poor kids for ages and ages. You might get lucky. http://www.lionsclubs.org.au/

I am so damn frustrated that I'm laid off and mostly broke myself when what would be a relatively small amount of money under normal circumstances, something I'd hardly miss, could make a good outcome for your problem a lot more certain. I'm sorry I've let you down.

Re: Ask the Lions

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointer Bob.

Heheheh You nut. :) You haven't let me down. :) I would have refused anyway. From what I've read nothing can really be done for viral infections. Also, I have a feeling the infection may be slowing down. In any case it wouldn't really matter much. I'd cope fine. It would simply take my life in a different direction.

When I was a kid I used to often walk around the house with my eyes closed or the lights off to see what would be like to be blind, and I would often block my ears or turn the TV's sound off and try to read lips to work out what people were saying. I've always been fascinated by loss of input and output on humans. This is why the heroine in a story I'm writing has cerebral palsy. It is also why I've always trained my dogs to respond to non-verbal commands -- hand signals.

Life is good. It would just be a different kind of good. :)