Thus far

     It has been a set of long weeks filled with finals, illnesses, last minute exams before finals, and other issues. Therapy has continued to amaze me. For the first time in my life three weeks ago, I was able to read letters with my left eye. I could not pinpoint where they were I could only pick out a few letters on a sheet of paper that has collumns of them. The next week I was able to catch a ball back and forth between my hands using only my left eye, although my eye still lagged behind the ball a bit, I was able to keep up enough to keep catching the ball. I was also to take the letter chart and read a series of letters and tell exactly which row those letters were in. This past week, I was able to start at the begining of the alphabet and find the letters on a peg wheel using only my left eye, I was able to reach m before getting confused (with n).

      I was able to trick my therapist at a point. He thought that I had some depth perception because I was using a stick with three colors on it to bat at a ball hanging from a string and I was able to keep the rythmn and force consistant. I had only missed the ball a couple of times. But the whole time I was using the rythmn to help me focus on keeping my force the same when hitting the ball. I was using the string to judge the distance between the ball and me and the floor. As long as I kept my arms at the same angle and the force on the ball consistant, I would be able to keep hitting the ball. It really made me think about how I make up for my lack of visual depth. I've stopped and thought about it more over the past couple of weeks. I realize that I use angles and lines, like a painter does when mimicking depth on a flat canvas. I use these tricks to try and position myself in the world.

     I need to speak with my doctor thought, I am not sure if it is the stress of finals week. (I've been starting at the computer a lot, and trying to re-read math notes) but the vision in my right eye goes out of focus. It has only done it a couple of times and I believe it has all been during the week before finals and this week of finals. The doctor had told me that I would get to a point where my doiminate (right) eye would weaken in a sense in order to allow the weak (left) eye to take up the slack. I go in tomorrow, so I will find out then what I should do. The doctor had lead me to believe that this would not happen until more the middle of my treatment, but according to my therapist, I am moving along at an impressive rate.