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I should be resting. I have to be awake this afternoon for deliveries of medication that I have to sign for.
I sleep lightly enough, and have a sign on the door that says to knock loudly, so I don't worry about sleeping through... the problem is that when I rise from sleeping, I get about 30 seconds of blindness and the delivery people are in such a rush that I am not in focus when I open the door... and then they're gone and the package is somewhere on the steps or something and the sun makes the incoming vision overbright. All in all, in takes me a full 2 minutes to be able to see outside.
If I'm already upright, but sitting in a lighted room, the whole event is only about 30 seconds as I rise from my chair and expose myself to the sun.
This issue arose after my third decompression. That was almost a year ago, and I still also have facial numbness. I think they are all related, and probably a permanent condition. I also had nerve damage from my thyroidectomy which makes it impossible for me to hold a note when singing (and also causes stuff I'm drinking to occasionally back up into my nose).
bleh - I wish I was more tired right now. I'll be SO wiped out by this afternoon if I don't get some rest. Besides, I'm still in that "nothing to do" phase.
I don't know if I've mentioned it here, but after I can see I've thought about medical billing/coding. Apparently, it is one of the few non-call-center at-home jobs out there... although I am somewhat skeptical about scams. Social Security has a vocational rehabilitation program that I will explore - again, when I can see, and if my energy levels increase enough to include more traveling about.
I am so thankful that I only have one more medical appt for June and only 2 in July (well, 3, but 2 are back-to-back in the same clinic)... because in August I have all my pre-surgical consults, then the surgery, then the post-surgical. Then a bunch of follow-up in September and monitoring for when I can have muscle surgery #2. Then all the pre-surgical stuff starts again. It'll be non-stop for about 3-4 months. But then I'll be able to see again, so it is all worth it.
I sleep lightly enough, and have a sign on the door that says to knock loudly, so I don't worry about sleeping through... the problem is that when I rise from sleeping, I get about 30 seconds of blindness and the delivery people are in such a rush that I am not in focus when I open the door... and then they're gone and the package is somewhere on the steps or something and the sun makes the incoming vision overbright. All in all, in takes me a full 2 minutes to be able to see outside.
If I'm already upright, but sitting in a lighted room, the whole event is only about 30 seconds as I rise from my chair and expose myself to the sun.
This issue arose after my third decompression. That was almost a year ago, and I still also have facial numbness. I think they are all related, and probably a permanent condition. I also had nerve damage from my thyroidectomy which makes it impossible for me to hold a note when singing (and also causes stuff I'm drinking to occasionally back up into my nose).
bleh - I wish I was more tired right now. I'll be SO wiped out by this afternoon if I don't get some rest. Besides, I'm still in that "nothing to do" phase.
I don't know if I've mentioned it here, but after I can see I've thought about medical billing/coding. Apparently, it is one of the few non-call-center at-home jobs out there... although I am somewhat skeptical about scams. Social Security has a vocational rehabilitation program that I will explore - again, when I can see, and if my energy levels increase enough to include more traveling about.
I am so thankful that I only have one more medical appt for June and only 2 in July (well, 3, but 2 are back-to-back in the same clinic)... because in August I have all my pre-surgical consults, then the surgery, then the post-surgical. Then a bunch of follow-up in September and monitoring for when I can have muscle surgery #2. Then all the pre-surgical stuff starts again. It'll be non-stop for about 3-4 months. But then I'll be able to see again, so it is all worth it.