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
10 comments:
Hi Sophie
We're glad you've been busy having a nice time. We're also glad that there is some improvement in your sight since the operation.
You do have some interesting experiences on all your visits to hospital. Pretty soon you'll not just be writing a blog - you'll be able to write a book.
We hope you continue having a nice time and enjoy the rest of your holiday. The sun may not be shining very much, but there's still plenty of fun stuff to do. We have very happy memories of watching you fly that rainbow kite.
Hope to see you soon.
Lots of love from
Nicki, David and Kate xxx
Hello Sophie
Glad to hear that you have had a good summer. What are you doing for your birthday? I'm nearly 9 too. Would you like to come to Denmark?
Have you read The Little Princess?If you haven't, it's really good.
Hope to see you soon.
Love Jenny
Hi Sophie
Good news! I'm very pleased. Hope it wasn't too much of an intrusion into your holidays to visit GOSH 3 times but at least there were no needles so you could relax a bit! You're pretty much an expert now with all these hopital procedures you're experiencing.
Hope you enjoy the last week or so of your holidays and if I don't get to see you beforehand have a wonderful birthday.
Lots of love as ever, Jo xxx
hi Sophie. Miss you
From Nadia
Hi, Sophie
Hope it's not too late to send you a blog for your blogspot! I'm so glad that you've had good news as a result of all your visits to the various hospitals. Long may it last! And you sound pretty energetic too, which is also good.
Have you heard recently from Helen and Clare? If not, you may not know that Helen's results have got her into Cambridge, and Clare starts her new school in Brat. today: she did extremely well in her GCSEs. And they've had a flood in their house!!
I collected some new photos the other day and there'sd a very good one of you, taken at Runnymede. I'll try to get round to making a copy for you to see.
Meanwhile, keep well!
Lots of love,
Rab
Hi Sophie!
We are so pleased you have had time to enjoy yourself this summer between your visits to GOSH, and that there has been improvement in your eye test results!
You are in our prayers every night, Sophie, and we look forward to seeing your smiling face at school on Tuesday!
Lots and lots of love
Sonja, John, Conor and Aran xxx
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Sophie,
Happy birthday to you!
Love from Nicki, David and Kate
xxx
Hi Sophie
It was lovely to see you in Portugal and I hope you enjoyed your holiday as much as we did ours!It was good to see you looking so well and having fun on the beach in Poole too.I hope to see you again soon
with lots of love
Anna XxXx
Hi Sophie
Hope all is going well with you. Jo is typing this for me because I'm clueless about blogs!
Lots of love
Grandpa Ronnie & Daphne xxx
Hi Sophie
We haven't heard from you for a while. How are things? Hope school is going well and that you feel well in yourself.
Love Nicki, David and Kate xxx
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