Good News
19 February 2010I went back to the doctor today and got some very good news. He said the swelling in my optic nerve is almost gone! He expects that over the next weeks and months I should see gradual improvement in my vision. He said that I would probably have some permanent vision loss but he believes I will eventually be able to drive at night again and be pretty close to normal.
The visit was actually pretty funny at points. The doctor called me his poster child because of the level of improvement. In fact, he’s apparently had discussions with the drug company about me. Obviously he believes the treatment is entirely responsible for for all this.
I don’t want to minimize the value of medical treatments in general or this treatment in particular. Indeed, I consider myself to be incredibly blessed to have ended up at this particular doctor who had just recently completed a small set of trials sponsored by the drug company with this treatment. In my mind it is nothing short of a miracle that, of all the doctors I could have seen, I saw this doctor. That is God at work my friends!
But I also know, based on other things the doctor has said over these last several weeks, that my results are not typical. He always expected some improvement but I don’t believe he ever expected to see the level that occurred in just two days. When he saw me on the Friday after the treatment on Wednesday, he was incredibly excited over the improvement in my visual acuity. In fact, he was a lot more excited than I was because I wasn’t also experiencing improvement in visual field.
The bottom line is this. I don’t know how much more improvement I’ll see or even if I’ll see any more improvement at all. I do know that God has worked in miraculous ways already and I expect He will continue to do so!
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