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Atchafalaya

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I don't know if I told you guys (I can't remember) but something happened to me at age 26 which didn't help me out either --- I started getting very sick, losing weight, headaches all of the time etc... Finally went to the Doctor and they discovered I had a brain tumor (benign) -- they didn't do anything at first as they wanted to monitor the thing in order to see if it would continue to grow or stay dormant -- one day I woke up in the morning and I had about half the sight in one of my eyes -- I was quite "freaked out" to put it mildly because I knew that it was the tumor that was causing it. Then the next morning when I woke up I had lost 100% of the vision in that eye and was totally blind in it. So, I went back to the neurologist and he got ahold of one of the top neurosurgeons in salt Lake City and scheduled me for emergency surgery --- to make a long story shorter, that miserable brain tumor really jacked me up -- I permanently lost all vision in my left eye and am totally blind in it.... If you blow up my avatar larger and take a close look you will notice that my left eye (right eye in the photo) looks like it is wandering a bit -- that's because it is as I am blind in it.

Anyway, that miserable tumor and surgery not only cost me half of my eyesight but it caused some of my neurologic problems as well -- Yes, I had Asperger's and ADD before all of that but it certainly doesn't help me when I am working on things and only have vision in one eye. I don't have depth perception like normal people have and it causes me to have accidents quite often
Oh my goodness. So sorry. Thank goodness it's gone now. Both your eyes are still beautiful even if one doesn't work anymore.
 

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I always do the same thing :) -- another thing we have in common :) -- no worries
Good. Thanks!
I have a brain issue. Cerebellum function isn't all that great in the motor skills area. So I walk with a cane sometimes when I get wobbly.
Here's a cool picture!
 

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    Oh my goodness. So sorry. Thank goodness it's gone now. Both your eyes are still beautiful even if one doesn't work anymore.

    you are too kind -- yeah I am lucky because they are both my real eyes and not glass or something -- the area of the brain where the optic nerve connects no longer functions properly -- I do have normal vision in my good eye and so I am very lucky for sure.
     

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    @Atchafalaya did your get your forum name from the Atchafalaya swamp in Louisiana?
    Yes I did! I love driving over that long bridge.
    "Atchafalaya Basin is the largest swampland in USA and the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, dually known as the Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge, carries the Interstate 10 over this marshland"
     

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    Yes I did! I love driving over that long bridge.
    "Atchafalaya Basin is the largest swampland in USA and the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, dually known as the Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge, carries the Interstate 10 over this marshland"

    yes, I already know this ;)
     
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    naww - I don't think so --- that kind of stuff doesn't matter to me --- I keep having shrinks and such tell me that kind of stuff but I simply do not care.
    Well, it's obvious. My father had an iq of 152 (not me!) and you remind me of him sometimes. He was awesome. Intelligent, and funny.
     
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