The Specialist Verdict

Mom and I took off to Fort Worth because I had an eye appointment with a specialist/specialist..a neuro-opthalmologist. We had a really good quick trip up there. I got some really great news..well probably one of the best diagnoses that I could get. He told me I have optic neuritis. It's inflammation of the optic nerve. Basically, my body is attacking my optic nerve because this is a autoimmune disorder. My body is treating my optic nerve as a foreign body. That is what has caused the blindness in the lower half of my left peripheral of eye. Good news is that is my sight should come back. He says it happens in younger people and in 93% of the people that get this recover completely..which is pretty good odds if you ask me. Also, he said with optic neuritis..most people have inflammation of the brain. He said because my MRI and Cat Scan showed no sign of inflammation of brain, he has high hopes that my vision will be restored completely. I do have to keep an eye out for signs of Multiple Sclerosis though. I read online that MS usually shows up within the first five years of having optic neuritis. So please pray that nothing of that appears. So I guess now it's just a waiting game. I'm hoping by June or July that my vision will be back to normal.