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Full History - 2019 - 09 - 13 - ID#d3zqdx
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How Do You Deal? (self.Blind)
submitted by darkness_is_great
Hey guys. I'm new here. I am a 22 year old university students. In utero, I had the cytomeglavirus and as a result i am deaf in my right ear. We've always known i had near sightedness. However, back in May, a routine eye appointment showed i should get laser eye surgery. So we went to the ophthalmologist where it was discovered, I was NOT a candidate for the procedure. He observed that my right eye was blurry. I really don't see anything out of it except blurs. He found bent nerves and double vision. He said the cytomeglavirus attacked my eyes. So, I guess I'm part blind. I have to wear stronger glasses. IF these new glasses don't help, we really need to be thinking about my.....visual future. And mom has glaucoma. The things i have are sign numero uno of it. Despite this, I still drive back and forth from school everyday and I've always struggled with driving and judging distances to card and things like that. So...how do I deal with this new information? And if there are other visually impaired drivers, what do you do? I've always dealt with the hearing loss just fine. We've known about that for a long time. How do I (and my family) adjust to these new revelations about me?
razzretina 6 points 3y ago
Treat your blindness like your hearing loss. Humans are adaptable. You'll be able to roll with this. It might take a bit of time to get used to it but it's not the end of the world unless you make it that way. You should probably work on using public transportation though. Driving with barely working depth perception that's probably on its way out is a bad idea.
darkness_is_great [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Yeah I live in a small town so public transport is a bit of a shitshow. It's actually a shitshow in the US everywhere. My left eye functions and compensates for the bad right eye. The doctor said the reason we never knew about the seeing double thing was because my brain merged the two pictures into one big thing. So that's why I'm able to drive. And he didn't really express concerns about it. Mom got my other eye doctor to fill out a form so I can get better parking.
razzretina 1 points 3y ago
The good thing about small towns is that you can more or less walk everywhere. :D That's really interesting the way your brain compensated for your vision loss! I didn't think that could happen but brains do all kinds of crazy things. As for public transit being bad across the US that's not entirely true. It really depends on where you are. There's nothing in the South, for example, but Colorado has good systems depending on the town and if you go to the coasts, there's pretty good transportation all over there. I've done a lot of traveling across the US as a blind person and you become very resourceful very fast that way, ha ha.
darkness_is_great [OP] 2 points 3y ago
I live in the South lol. My bad balance and depth perception has always been attributed to the hearing loss. And now my recent vision loss explains SOOO much. It all makes sense.
razzretina 1 points 3y ago
I don't know how hearing affects balance but I know for sure that the blind have balance problems. My sympathies for being stuck in the south right now; I used to live down there and the lack of sidewalks on its own was awful, public transit being even worse if it existed at all. Maybe investigate places you can move with better transportation for the future?
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