Micro-Update

I’m making progress on my recovery, so I thought I’d update you all! I’ve seen improvement from my various therapies. I only have one more physical therapy appointment. I start training for a new job next week, which means a pretty big change in lifestyle, so as long as those changes don’t severely effect me, I’m getting close to physical therapy graduation.

I’ve been going to vision therapy which has helped a lot. Vision therapy has helped me with what’s called binaural focus, which basically means my eyes weren’t working together the way they’re meant to. I’ve seen a ton of improvement on this front in the past few weeks. My vision therapist also mentioned that changes in vision are sometimes a thing with head injuries and encouraged me to get my eyes checked out. I’ve spent the last two weeks frustrated but optimistic. The road to recovery means I need to do exercises (the amount of “homework” can be absolutely overwhelming) to strengthen those skills. I’d found that whenever I tried to read for my cognitive therapy exercises I wound up getting impatient because there were halos around the words and it took a lot more concentration and mental energy to get through it than it did before the accident. I was practically reading a book a week on my bike ride (all on the kindle app on my phone) and now I could barely read a paragraph. Not to mention the amount of time it took to get through that paragraph.

So my will power to do my various therapy homeworks disappeared. I felt absolutely sure that if I went to an eye doctor I’d see huge strides in my ability to read again. I went to an optometrist yesterday and walked away with a prescription for reading glasses. I could read text clearly for the first time since September, before the accident. So, I ordered glasses online. They should be here in a few weeks! I’m pretty sure that once I have them I’ll feel much more up to writing and reading again–so hopefully in 2-3 weeks I’ll start writing actual blog posts again.

I’m toying with the idea of scheduling my next livestream q&a, which I also think will come once I have glasses.