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06 October 2009, 08:14 PM
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Strabismus/squint
I've lived with a strabismus my whole life. It can get to be a pain.
Many people with strabismus see double, but I have the opposite problem. When I try to concentrate on an object, I need to use a single eye. Otherwise, there is an area in the middle of the object that is invisible to me. When I golf, for instance, if I don't pick up the ball right away, I just won't see it. This is a huge pain in the nfsbk. Driving at night in the rain is where I especially have problems, and it's gotten so bad, I decided that if I couldn't get it at least to a tolerable level, I'd have to give up driving. I saw my ophthalmologist yesterday, and when he was cycling through the different prescriptions for my eyes, he introduced a prism to my squint eye and asked me if it was any better. I was speachless. I swear I could hear angels sing. I think I sat there for at least a minute and a half just staring through the vision thingie before he finally asked, "well?" I was having trouble not choking up. I asked him, "is this how a normal person's eyes work?" In about three hours, I get to go to the ophthalmology lab to have a test prism added to my current prescription. I'm extremely excited. Now...my only question is...why couldn't this be done five years ago when I really started to complain to him about how bad it was getting? Anyone else with strabismus problems? I'm curious to see how others have gotten on with their lives.
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06 October 2009, 11:12 PM
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Nothing to say except "WOOHOO!!" Glad you get to see *normal*.
ETA: ...not that Fargo has much to see.  Kidding! I lived in GF way too long. A lot less interesting there!
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I may have just had a squeegasm - Blatherskite.
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07 October 2009, 02:44 AM
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Incidentally, after hitting the golf course tonight, I found something I was not really aware of before. This world has a lot of vibrant colors and hues to be enjoyed. I've never really been able to look at a point and concentrate on it before. Now that I can, I'm simply amazed at what there is to see.
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"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." -Thomas Jefferson
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07 October 2009, 08:21 PM
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I may have just had a squeegasm - Blatherskite.
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07 October 2009, 09:45 PM
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I've had that problem with my left eye, but I wore glasses and an eye patch as a child, so it's not as noticeable unless I'm really tired. There was a period from my teens to when I was in my mid 20's that I had great vision, but in my mid 20's, I noticed that things in the distance were starting to get blurry, so I got glasses again. That particular vision problem runs in my family, as my brother who didn't have strabismus, also got glasses when he was in his 20's.
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