Friday, December 30, 2011

A little about a rotten little thing called Devics

You say you have no idea what that is well join the crowd!  It is an awful monster that I live with everyday.  It attacked me when I least expected it.  I was sitting in a meeting (a very boring meeting I might add) when suddenly I had an awful pain in my left eye.  Me being me decided that even though it felt like someone had stabbed me in the eye with an ice pick I should finish out my work day.  I noticed that everything in my left side vision was blurry but I stumbled through my day and drove home.  The next morning I knew something was really wrong I was not able to see out of my left eye!  I will never forget the eye doctor off handedly saying ,not to me but the resident, she is blind in that eye.  I must have a made noise because the resident said to me I am sorry. 

This was the start of a long journey.  It took 2yrs and me falling and being unable to get up on my own before I was told I had Devics. It is very rare and no one seems to know about it unless they are a nuro versed in it.  I have no love for the monster but we have come to know each other well.  It put me in the hospital and I fought my way out.  It put me in a wheelchair and I fought my way out of it.  Will I win against the monster?  Doctors tell me no.  See the monster always wins in the end.  Will I keep fighting it?  Oh yeah with my last breath! 

I will talk about my monster Devics from time to time.  I promise this will not become a disease blog. LOL  But Devics has helped me see the world a bit differently.  I am now disabled and I realised how often I have over looked people with disabilities.  I no longer do that, I am very aware of the hardships.  He has taught me other things I will share in time.  So now you know a little more about the monster and me.

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