Archive for 2005

My strabismus surgery

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Several have asked how my strabismus surgery went. I had eye muscle surgery in May...lateral rectus recession. My eyes had been drifting a lot more prior to the surgery, and had become increasingly unstable and uncomfortable. It was difficult to hold a focus to read. My ...

Education in focus

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

About the photo: Dr. Wanda Vaughn, a developmental optometrist, completes a target push-up skill with Mark Andrews*. The exercise trains him to move his eyes inward and stay focused on an object. Mark has been diagnosed with convergence insufficiency, which means the eyes don't turn in enough ...

A network cable …er, brain circuit …is unplugged

Monday, October 24th, 2005

I've seen an icon similar to this a lot lately, yet no cable was unplugged. My computer seemed to be continuously trying to connect to the net. If I managed to get connected it was only a short time before I was disconnected again. After switching cables ...

Partly cloudy today

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Often websites show simulators of what the world may look like with various eye conditions. Our current featured photo provides a look at what some with strabismus see. (Click the photo for a larger view.) Yet even the best simulators can't portray what it is really like ...

Word and Character Counter

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Tip: Bookmark this page! (Click on the title of the post to navigate to it's permalink. Then press Ctrl-D, or use your mouse, to add to Favorites or Bookmarks.) I've used this handy little word counter for a couple of years. It's easy to ...

Helping you cope...

Our vision is to get the best we can from what we have to work with, and to do the best we can with what we get! More....

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