Mr. Sulu...

    Therapy began yesterday. They are putting me through a series of exercises like eye stretches. Where I move my eyes without turning my head as far as I can turn them, and hold them there. This is to build up muscle strength around the eyes. I also have to do body lifts, where I lay on my stomach and lift different appendages and hold them in the air, this is supposed to get my brain and body to work together better. This will apparently help me become less of a klutz, I have my doubts... This is mostly home stuff though, that my lovely assistant Phil, has to help me with.
   The first day wasn't much really. I was given my binder, and had the different exercises and worksheets explained to me. I did discover, while having on what reminds me of old-school 3-D glasses, that my eyes seem to combine part of a picture, at least sometimes. My brain combines the periphery of what the weak eye sees, with what the dominate eye sees, only a little though. But the main object I'm looking at is either ignored through the weak eye, or shown, usually not in its entirety, slightly off to the right of what my dominant eye sees. It can be a little annoying since it's always changing.
    I also got to play on the set of Star Trek, but, unfortunately, the therapist is not William Shatner or George Takei. I was told to stand in front of this large grey contraption that had about 12 radials on it that had lights on them. It kind of looked like an unfinished outline of a bicycle wheel drawn onto a large grey box. A timer is then set on the box and a light will turn on. You push the light, it goes out, and another comes on somewhere else. You push it, it goes out, ect. You are supposed to see how many you can do in a given time. This is one of the pirate patch activities. I started with the weak eye. Switched to the dominant eye. Then used both eyes. I was in the high 60's almost 70's with the dominant eye. Stayed around 65 with both eyes. And my highest score with the weak eye, 24. There was one light in particular that kept giving me trouble. The bottom right light I could see, but I just couldn't pin point it. It was very frustrating, but I doubt Uhura started kicking the machinery on deck ...