I took a break from blogging for a couple of years. There were several reasons. I didn’t really want to know my "story" anymore. I also was disheartened with people knowing my political views. And finally, most of the "blogger" apps don’t work very well. I just bought an app for my blog using the one that I am trying now. I will see if it works. If it works well I will probably start to blog again. So far it’s not working because I cannot insert a picture. I will keep trying.
I met with my eye doctor last week about taking some time off from my vision therapy. I have been doing therapy since my stroke almost two and a half years ago. I am tired, and a need a break. My doctor said, “This is completely understandable. Take some time off.” At the appointment, my doctor tested my vision. Because of the strokes, my vision was affected, and I have a problem in my field of vision on the right side. I have a deficit with my right side peripheral vision. However, it is getting better. During the test, I told him that I “sense things on the right side of my peripheral vision.” It seems that I know that something is there, but I cannot really distinguish what it is. He told me that there is a body of thought describing phantom vision or phantom blindness. A Polish researcher, L. Bieganowski, described this phantom blindness this way: “The subject of the paper is the phenomenon of phantom vision. It occurs among the blind (or almost blind...
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