Comments on: I Don’t Want to See That!

By: Nancy L. Neff

Nancy L. Neff — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:46:33 +0000

In reply to Daniela. Good for you and your teenage self, Daniela! One of my teachers calls this a "medical hex", like putting the Evil Eye on someone, giving a dire prognosis which the body believes and takes in fully, then makes it come true. I'm glad you've found that improving vision is possible (and fun!). Maybe you can teach the girl inside of you about it. :)

By: Daniela

Daniela — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:35:24 +0000

“I was starting to worry I’d grow up to be a blind adult, since my vision kept getting worse. I walked around the house with my eyes closed, memorizing where the furniture was, to get ready.”
How interesting Nancy, I did exactly the same!!!!
In one of my visits to the optician (very unpleasant man) I asked him what he thought about my eyes/vision since at every visit I had to increase my lenses. I must have been in my early teens then and he brutally said to me: your vision will get progressively worse and you might go blind!
I have to say that I never believed him and was determined to prove him wrong. My eyesight in fact didn’t worsen until later on in my life…

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:15:00 +0000

In reply to Ismat Aldmour.

Ismat, your situation does sound a lot like mine. I’d say be grateful for the strengths you did develop, like being a top student and learning how to learn, and give your visual system the attention now it didn’t get as a child. For me it was a barometer of how overwhelmed and powerless I felt — my eyes were talking to me the only way they had, with blur. I didn’t need glasses and especially not stronger glasses, I needed to play more! Go for a walk outdoors with no agenda other than appreciating all you can see. And good for you for your awareness.

By: Ismat Aldmour

Ismat Aldmour — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:36:40 +0000

Very interesting analysis , to your own case, Nancy, which I believe it is very similar to my case and probably to the many cases of others. In my case, I believe I knew what ignited my vision degradation at childhood. My father was a government official who can be moved from one city to another according to work needs, so l spent most of my childhood moving from a city to another every other year or sometimes in less than a year. I believe I survived many of these movements, however, this last move from Mafraq in Jordan, where we settled for about 3 years! resulting in some good childhood friends, to Madaba city at the end of 6th grade, brought to me vision disturbances that were diagnosed as light myopia to be corrected by glasses!. Of course, the rest of the story is very similar to yours. I remember the first signs of vision disturbances after the move where that the faces of the kids in the class was toggling back and forth from the new faces to the faces of my best old friends I was apparently missing. probably with some light difficulties to see the teachers’ writing on the blackboard. That year, in particular, in the mid seventies, the school conducted general medical checkup for all the students including eye tests to come up with the first eyesight minus values! with a recommendation to have glasses. Of course, I believe that at that time I didn’t loose only my acute eyesight but also I lost some of my capabilities to socialize and make friends. Combining with a hardworking student devoted to long hours of homework duties and devotion to reading stories and books, all with glasses on, all the time from wake up to sleep and sometimes sleeping with glasses on! you would imagine what will the years timeline will come out with. I wonder, if I didn’t had that check up would be that I might have accommodated ecologically and restored my sharp vision I used to have before!.