I called my best friend today because she totally gets me and I haven’t talked to her in a little bit. I explained to her that I am ‘edgy’ and I am not sure why. I then told her about my vision and we talked about that. I told her that I was okay with losing my ability to walk and some other abilities as well. I seem to be getting along.
But in this 21st year, my speech is becoming more difficult to understand and to force the words out of my mouth, I can’t chew food, and my vision is going. She was completely understanding and she is the person I needed to talk to today!
She emphasized and explained that your speech and your vision are to very important things! And that’s it. That’s why I am ‘edgy.’ My Speech Pathologist, (who I am meeting with virtually next week) told me when I met her that she will be evaluating me and it will just come across as conversation.
I told Ami that she was really helping me because I was completely comfortable with her and that’s 20 years of friendship there! I could feel my mouth muscles loosening up so it wasn’t so difficult to speak and I thanked ther for that! I cried a little bit and I think that helped. In our conversation, we talked about my vision and I thought about a good description. I see only in SD and I have been seeing an HD since I first got my glasses 33 years ago when I was seven:
When we got off the phone because we ( my Mom and me) had to get our haircut, I explained this to my Mom and she didn’t understand HD v SD and then I showed her a couple pictures:
I get the gist of what I am looking at and that is probably why I watch movies multiple times to pick up on what I may have missed out on. The comparison pictures I showed to my mom made her sad. It’s been making me sad for the past month and so, I have been ‘edgy.’