I'm not wearing a lanyard!

We had our annual eye doctor appointments in August.  No change for Eric and I, but the doc wanted Jodie to return for a special vision mapping session.

When Jodie was young, part of her disability was that she saw everything upside down.  We all see things upside down...out brains just flips it right side up automatically.  Jodie's brain did not do that for her.  Through intense therapy, Jodie's brain was taught to see things the right way.

A couple weeks ago, we returned to have Jodie's visioned mapped.  Our insurance kindly agreed to cover the procedure...;).

Jodie knew something was wrong when the tech doing the vision mapping kept asking "Are you sure you don't see that?"...over and over again.

Jodie asked the tech if something was wrong.  A rhetorical question...proven by the tech's response..."I will let the doctor talk to you."

Indeed, good news it was not.

The lower portion of Jodie's field of vision is gone.  I don't exactly know where the line is, but it explains why she has had a harder time seeing curb cuts when she is motoring along.

Jodie started to cry about it when we got in our van.  We talked about it.  The question as to why God would give us this to deal with came up.  Isn't having the disabilities and issues we have enough?  We don't dwell there too long.  God loves us and will see us through this like He has everything else.

We started thinking about the trouble Jodie has had riding in the van when Eric or I am driving.  She is constantly getting startled.  Well, she's not seeing what we see. With the lower part of her vision gone, other traffic is popping into her vision after Eric and I see it.  Eric and I see it coming.  For Jodie, it is just suddenly right there!

So, Jodie wears bifocals...as do I.  Since Jodie  cannot see anything in her lower vision, the lower lens of her bifocal is basically useless.

I told Jodie that she might need to have to sets of glasses "You know," I told Jodie, "with a lanyard like old ladies wear?"

"I'm not wearing a lanyard!" Jodie said.

Jodie is going to go back into the eye doctor in a couple months for another testing of her field of vision.  They want to see if there is any progression in Jodie's blind spot.  We are hoping there will not be.

But, whatever comes, we will get through it.