Hello everyone, I'm sorry that I haven't updated my blog recently. I have been so busy having a nice time because it's the holidays! However, I have now some news about my vision and a chat with my consultant. In the past two weeks I have been to Great Ormond Street Hospital three times. First there was an electrograph eye test. What happens is that they put some gel on my head, which feels quite rough, then they attach electrodes all over my head. They test one eye at a time by covering the other with an eye-patch so that I look like a Pirate! While watching a film they interrupt with flashing black and white squares and I have to keep my eyes focused on a red dot in the middle of the screen. The flashing squares get smaller and smaller. The second trip was in order to chat to the Professor who operated on me, for which we were in The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital building (which is next door to GOSH). He was very happy to see me again and I was happy to see him too! He asked me how I was getting on and answered my worries over how my head was feeling. He said I could blame him for every sore thing because he did the operation! The third and most recent trip to GOSH (today!) was for a further eye test and chat with the ophthalmologists. The test was a Visual Field test where I have to lean into a machine called a Goldmann. I have copied some information about this test with a picture. Here it is: - The Goldmann visual field is manually operated, unlike the Humphrey and Esterman tests which are computerised. The patient fixates on a target at the centre of the screen. Lights are presented to the patient by moving them in from the outside of the screen. The patient presses a button when they first see the light enter their field if vision. The size and brightness of the presented lights are changed in order to map out the sensitivity of the eye to different stimuli. The resulting chart produced from the Goldmann test is similar to a contour map of the sensitivity of the eye.
They said that the results from the two tests showed a slight improvement following my operation! I now do not have another MRI scan until September or maybe October, but I hope to post again soon! Thank you for all your posts. You have all been very kind. Love from Sophie xxx
