October 2011 Blog Posts (12)

The 41st Annual Meeting of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development has now come to a close. The educational content was superb! In turn,  attending Doctors and Vision Therapists, who are the providers of this specialty vision care,…

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Low visual information-processing speed and attention are predictors of fatigue in elementary and junior high school students go to http://ning.it/vtnE8X 

 

Optometry was right once again!

These last couple of weeks have been hard ones. Over the past 6 months in VT, I've managed to accomplish all the tasks presented to me... until now. I've been presented with converging and diverging exercises using the 'life savers' and Eccentric Circles. The diverging work has been fairly easy to master but these converging tasks have really tested my left eye. I've worked so hard trying to get the results they've hoped for that I think it's tempering some of my 3D enjoyment.

In…

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The American Conference on Pediatric Cerebral Visual Impairment: Save this Date!

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Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Anna K. in Berkeley for four hours of a heart-to-heart conversation about life as a strabismic doing VT. I finally found someone with whom I could walk and stare at trees and comment on how they looked.

 

I've been doing VT since January 2010 and although I'm lucky to have three friends who have done VT in the past (for various reasons), I have not met any adult in person who totally gets where I am, why I get so tired, why I get mood,…

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As the words of my 11th opinion sunk in, I realized that no one knows when I’ll be done with this and when I will get over my horror fusionis, develop central fusion and be on my merry way. The original thought was that my therapy would be done in a year. It’s been a year and nine months with a six week break during the summer of 2010.



I can’t continue delaying what I want to do in my life because of the side effects of binocular vision therapy. Part of my frustration… Continue

I have been barely writing for over a month because I had an optometrist visit that sent me into several weeks of emotional paralysis. After much deliberation, I decided to go for yet another second opinion. I counted how many health professionals I’ve consulted about my vision therapy, strabismus and side effects since commencing VT in January 2010 and I counted 12. Yes, twelve. Two developmental optometrists, three ophthalmologists, two neurologists, one neuro-ophthalmologist, one… Continue

Dr.Press:

In your VisionHelp Blog of June 14, 2011, you quote "…The thought question pops into his head:  If a strabismic artist undertakes vision therapy to improve binocular vision, will the development of stereopsis inform or diminish his artistry?"

Growing up unaware that I was strabismic (with a convergence insufficiency) certainly turned my education and artistic lives upside-down. Coming from a perfectionist family, I had the desire to add detail but lacked the…

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Hard to believe I'm so near the end of the sessions. I worked with Jen for the last time this week ;-( . She's been so great to work with - so positive, hopeful and supportive... and I love it when she feels the need to experiment.

We have been working with the Eccentric circles (both on paper and acetate). I now can use the eccentric circles to move back and forth between converging and diverging, creating the third pair each time. It's tiring but I get it. I converge at a closer…

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I will be lecturing this week at the American Academy of Optometry meeting in Boston, MA. If you plan on coming, feel free to take a look at this as a preview of my presentation. If you can't make it to the AAO this year (shame on ya!) but still want to learn a bit about 3D vision...goto  …

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I feel the urge to share more before and after photos of myself post-VT. My mother and I recently took a trip to Disneyland, and it was a pleasure to bounce around the park, seeing it in full stereopsis, only to manifest the same results in photos. I especially loved the new Star Tours which now has a 3D feature. Wow!!

I also went to a show in LA and saw one of my favorite musicians, Tim Minchin. Going to gigs has always been a touch-and-go experience if I'm relatively far from the…

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The International Brain Injury Association wants you to submit an abstract for its meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. If my abstract is accepted, I just might see you there!

http://mainosmemos.blogspot.com/2011/10/international-brain-injury-association.html…

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