Category: Getting to Know You
Has anyone been just blinded...not through a disease.but rather by an accident or something.was it a shock?...and how did you go about dealing with it.i'd love to hear responses.thanx
I myself did not go through that experience, but I have friends that went through that, and I have heard some tragic stories! i wouldn't really know, but I can imagine it is much harder for someone who was once able to see, then all of a sudden that be taken away from then, than it is to be born this way, as I was. In a way, that's why I consider myself quite lucky! Also I have a couple of friends that used to have some vision, and have lost it completely due to certain eye conditions. That has to be really hard!
Mine wasn't an accident. But i Went blind almost eight years ago, on my birthday . will be eight years next Thursday. As has been seen on another board, I had a blood clot from the birth control pill. it was all in a weaks time. had headaches, then blurred vision, then woke up one day had no idea where I was and couldn't see at all. I did have perfect vision up until this point, was working as a CNA, certified nurses assistant for those that don't know. lol, wanting to start nursing school, and driving. It wasn't as hard for me to adjust as most would think. Don't get me wrong I had my days. But, I didn't dwell on it. I think this was all due to also having had a stroke from the blood clot and my right side was weak, face drooped and all that fun stuff. I had radiation to get rid of the blood clot and lost my hair. I was never told this was going to happen, so it was thrown on me all at once. Was in the shower and all the sudden had huge hand fulls of hair. Was more upset about that than the blindness. lol I know i'm a girlie girl. hehehe Anyway, I think i was more worried about them telling me I wasn't going to make it and my face being drooped and hair falling out, and being in the hospital for around three months. That i didn't really dwell on the blindness. lol!. I went through physical therapy and all and my face and right side weakness eventually went away. yaaaaay. and hair finally grew back. smiles. but yea, it is hard, but there's always something out there that may be even harder for you. lol just depends on the person and situation. Everyone has there days, but we deal with it in different ways. just to clarify the only permanant affect from all this is my blindness and headaches. I look at it as being lucky. It could have been much much worse!
Oh my...a birth control pill...what was the name of the pill
I used to be on the pill but not for that reason. It gave me headaches to. Bad ones. I lost my sight when wasone year old. They put it down to an accident. But nobody realy knows. I took some pain killers ecauseIthought they were sweets and wouldn't wake up. Then the doctor gave me something to make me sick but instead ended up in coma for 10 days and was parilised down one side. Luckily the dctors managed to fix that but they coul't save my sight.
The pill i was taking was ortho tri cyclen. they just enteract different with people.
holy shit, thats scary. I used orthotricyclin for years. but I was already blind so I guess I didnt have to worry about that happening. but its a scary thought.
Shea, I apologize for my remark about I was already blind... in the last post. I should have read your original post more clearly before posting my comment. I didnt mean any harm. God, I wish we could retract posts.
i was blinded by a medical accident, too much oxygen at birth. i had partial sight until age 11, when i lost all my sight. i hold those sighted days very dear indeed.
woh Shea, that's scarey! good on you for having coped so well!
I was blind from birth, so not missing anything which is the positive in my situation, but then I do get heck curious and wish I knew what seeing fully is like!
i can see. but i never knew that a birth control can make someone blind.
one saturday afternoon, after a literacy workshop meeting at the high school i had just started teaching six months prior i was hit from behind on interstate 95. i was on my way home. i was hit frombehind. my car tail spinned. was t boned. ended up crossing five lanes of traffic. soon after i developed vascular glacoma. several days later i was told i was going blind.
at age 36, after graduating from college and finaley getting my shit together. becoming part of the dream i had since high school. i went blind. i had surgery but they couldnt do a thing to save my sight. recalling those last days, i can remeber me lying on the floor, curled up with a flashlight pointed at my eyes. i could still feel and partcialy see the light from the corner of my eye. i held on to the flashlight as it were my life line to the outside world. i held on to it, even in my sleep. i would wake up and start panicing so to relax i would turn it on and off. on and off. on and off.
i finaly let go of the flashlight. with the help of my partner, who is now a good friend. i am able to walk. we all do have out days. some good ones. some shitty one. hell, even as i type this i am shedding tears. not of sorrow but of joy because i am surviving. walking torwards, i dont know what but walking still.
Wow that was terrible! Carlos. But I am glad that u managed to put things together can carry on. I was thinking of writing an article or even a book of how various people was disabled by all kinds of accident. Message me if u would like to share your story with others.
damn that stinks wow...
missdanceralicia, the pill caused Shea to have a stroke. Not all strokes cause blindness. I remember when I turned 16 I was going to go on the pill to help regulate my cycle. My mom read the warnings on the back of the container, and strokes and heart attacks were two things it said the pill could cause. She wouldn't let me take it after reading that. But just like any prescription drug, only an unlucky few have bad side effects.
Shea, I knew you had lost your vision suddenly, but I didn't know the cause. Having been lucky to have decent vision for many years and losing the rest gradually, I feel really bad for anyone who lost their's suddenly.
omg, now i'm scared to take birth control. I was born visually impairred, but whho knows I could still use my remaining vision if i'm nont careful
no, no, no. the pill didn't make me just go blind. it caused a blood clot on my brain, which cut off the oxygen to my optic nerve, which then caused me to lose my sight. the pill also caused me to have the stroke. it's really rare, to get a blood clot on the brain from the birth control pill. but i just happened to be the lucky one. so taking the pill doesn't mean your going to lose the rest of your vision@
I used to take the pill, but not for birth controll. It gave me bad headaches.
Hey everyone,
Well, I still have some vision, but I'm slowly losing it and it's very hard for me and I wish it didn't have to happen. I only have light perception in my right eye and I use to be able to see shadows and color out of it when I was a kid, but a caterac didn't get removed when it was suppose to when I was young I guess, and there's too much scar tissue there now. The doctors won't opperate on me because my eyes are undersized, and they're afraid of damaging it more than it already is, so I said ok fine. But the other one I can still see shadows out of,but no more color. I noticed this about a year ago or so. So I can't use my vision anymore like I use to, which is ok, but I wish the doctors wouldn't have to tell me that I wow't be able to see anymore in time. There's nothing like going to the doctor and them bluntly telling you how it is, which is ok because at least you know, but I really hate it. lol. Sometimes, I think of things I use to be able to see or think of things I use to be able to do and I get really sad, but I hope that I'll come out of this all strong. I don't think about this everyday, oh no, because if I did, I would be devistated a lot and I don't want to go through that. I think it is harder for someone to just suddenly lose their vision though, rather than slowly, but I've heard the opposite to, so I dunno. I think it's hard for people no matter how they lose it because you have to adapt anyway. I think the thing that makes it harder for me though is that I'm hearing impaired, and I don't like being hearing impaired and totally blind at the same time. Since I have to use my hearing more at some point, I won't be able to like most people woo have good hearing because my directional hearing sucks really bad. It's mostly crossing streets and trying to find things on my own that's the hardest sometimes. But I'm getting a new guide dog that might be able to help with that, and if I'm going somewhere unfamiliar, I don't go alone. I already know that. I'm not even allowed to use my cane alone anymore from what mobility instructors have said, so I guess we'll just all wait and see what happens. I'm sorry for just laying down all this sad stuff, but this is how it all goes, and we're all just sharing things anyway right? So that's my little pitiful story lol.