I went to Northwestern Hospital to see Dr. Timothy Hain. He is a specialist in dizzyness/balance issues. He said that I have Internuclear opthalmoplegia. Very rare, it means that my eyes do not work together. It is a disorder of conjugate lateral gaze in which the affected eye shows impairment of adduction. When the partner eye is abducted, it diverges from the affected eye. This produces horizontal diplopia ( double vision). That is, if the right eye is affected the patient will "see double" when looking to the left and the images will be side by side. During extreme abduction, compensatory nystagmus can be seen in the partner eye. Convergence is generally preserved.
I asked him if this can be cured and he said not really. He would try to think of someone who could help me with therapy, maybe California.
For some reason, I basically knew this before. But , I really felt so depressed. Now I am a lifer, someone with a debilitating thing, that was for other people not for me. So, decided to have a few little pity parties for myself over the weekend. It's Monday morning, feeling better again, ready to charge forward once again.
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