I heard big news from my
appointment with Dr. Margolis (vision therapy) - I no longer have the diagnosis of convergence
insufficiency!
He did a couple very
specific motion tests, and said that the reason I still have trouble - for
example, with reading - is because my visual vestibular integration is still
giving me some trouble.
He's worked with me for
a long time now, and says that there's been overall steady progress. He pointed
out some of the ways in which I've made progress -some more obvious like
glasses, and some somewhat less obvious like how will I tolerate something.
He also said that it's
important for me to do work at home. He said even a few seconds of something
matters.
It's hard to be
traveling such a long, slow road, but if I hadn't kept going, I wouldn't have
gotten to the point of him saying that my convergence insufficiency diagnosis
is over. I still have work to do, and feel like I owe it to myself to keep
going. I realize that I'm very, very fortunate to have the support to keep
going.
I don't want to be so
glued into doing vision therapy that it prevents me from doing something else,
which would mean taking an occasional week off. I feel like taking breaks with
such long term neurological rehab is important for my mental health.
I still have my
vertiginous migraine disorder, which presents sensory problems, and I still
have PTSD anxiety/depression. But it's incredibly encouraging to hear that
something that I didn't think would be fixed - I mean, I've been doing VT for 6
1/2 years! - has been.
To anyone out there
reading this, who's also traveling a long, tough road... find people to
encourage you, and don't give up on yourself.
