Archive | January 2011
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#2 and #3: so what the heck do you *do* for vision therapy?
I practice my vision therapy every day. At my appointments, my vision therapist and I review the tasks assigned last week, and new tasks are practiced and assigned for the next 6 days. Each day I have “homework” except on my vision therapy days, when my hour-long therapy appointment suffices. Each week the 5-6 tasks […]
Ahoy Matey!
An important aspect of my vision therapy is monocular occlusion: use an eye patch to cover up one eye and do an exercise, and repeat with the other eye. I assumed I was slated for the glorious fleshy-colored bandaid-style stick-on eye patches from my youth. And I will add, when I was a kid, there […]
#1: a bit sick to my stomach
I got motion sickness during my first vision therapy appointment. Yesterday, 1-11-11, was my first “real” vision therapy appointment: #1. I have been to the clinic three times already, for an assortment of assessments and tests. Today was the first time Jeri, my vision therapist, gave me instructions, tools, and techniques to practice every […]
Why I hate eye exams.
I really, really hate eye exams. Most people do not understand the level of agony this event entails, not even the people who wear glasses and/or contacts. Instead of the 20-minute trip to LensCrafters and a brief sit behind the prescription-makin’ machine for a few rounds of questioning: “better one or better two?” for me […]
wonkiness detection aka angle kappa
Takes one to know one. I have always been secretly proud of a special skill I have: strabby spotting. From a mile away, I can always tell if someone’s got a little wonkiness to their eyes. Nobody I know has this skill except me and my dad. Back in the day, he was spotting movie […]
secret strabby techniques
Shhhhhh…it’s our little secret, is what some strabbies murmur to their wonky eyeballs. I can imagine during high school senior portrait time or for the strabismic bride on her wedding day, there is louder, full-on pleading, please, please don’t look so dang wonky, not here, not now! What the heck is a strabby to do, […]
What is weird about my eyes?
Laser skin surgery, in the wink of my eye! In college, during a boring lecture (actually during many boring lectures) I discovered that my right eye sees things redder, and my left eye sees things less red. I happened to be staring at my pale-skinned cultural anthropology professor, and with the right eye, her complexion […]
