I've worked my way up to 6 regular doctors!

Today I had my doctor's appointment with Dr. Chavis my new Neuro-Optometrist. After three hours in the various rooms I was questioned and stared down by 3 different women and had a visual field test, not to mention a million bright lights glared into my eye, a machine pressed against my eye ball, and a series of photographs of the back of my retina. Yeah, it was quite a long morning. Having a bright flash go off about a half an inch from your eye really makes you think "didn't they always tell me NOT to stare at bright lights?". And I was diagnosed with a new disease today called Alexia. it's basically a learning disability caused by that damn brain tumor. It would explain why it's so hard to read. I can see the words and numbers fine but I cannot comprehend them. Dr. Chavis said I nailed it on the head, what happens is that messages aren't being sent from one side of the brain to the other because the tumor is or was resting on the center of the cross of the two nerve cords going from the eyes to the brain (like the center of an X). Anyway I'll leave a better definition I found from a medical website.

Ya know just what I was starting to accept that it will always be a pain in my ass, this happens. Can i not get a break? My boss is probably ready to kill me because I keep having to switch my schedule and ask for days off to go to all these damn doctor's appointments, but I mean it's not my fault. It's not like I'm trying to get out of work to go shopping or out partying or something. oh well I guess.

So now I have to go on Thursday to see a Visual Rehabilitator so that I can possibly be able to read again. People thought I was kidding when I said I couldn't read! So I'll be getting a note from one of my doctors to take to Winthrop to the disabilities lady and see if that will get me anything. great times indeed

Alexia: A neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to read or understand the written word. Alexia is a complex visual disturbance resulting from disease in the visual-association areas at the back of the brain. Someone who has had a stroke may be left with pure (total) or partial alexia. Partial alexia permits the individual to recognize letters but only read only certain types of words such as the concrete noun "inn" but not the more abstract preposition "in". Also called word blindness.