After 18 months of struggling with double vision and bulbous eyes I can now report that after two quite scary operations I now have single vision. I can only say that the relief is unbelievable. The appreciation of near normal sight is fantastic. I will never have the complete vision I had before but what I have now is just great. I am indebted to my Doctors - Dr. Raf Ghabrial of Macquarie Street, Sydney and his team.
I am now able to drive the car, and in fact drove half the way home from Sydney which gave Tony a rest. I am now planning on giving Mum a few outings, which I am looking forward to. I only hope she is not past wanting to do things. I feel she is nervous about my driving as she just can't realise that I can see as well as I can.
How people cope in their everyday lives with impaired vision is hard to comprehend. It certainly gave me an insight into how Mother is seeing the world and how you can just give up on certain things. For instance - does it really matter if the clothes you are wearing are not quite the right colour? I haven't worn makeup for some time - I will be from now on - but did that really matter? Even the everyday activity of walking - everything is now flat and not wavey.
On thing that is not so good - I can now see the dust and grime that I have to clean in my house - what a blow - ignorance can be bliss!!
1 comment:
Helen, Happy birthday! Keep well. So glad that your vision is now more normal. I do hope we will see each other soon.
Laurie
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