443. The Diagnosis

I was diagnosed a tumour formation on the optic nerve with low vision which had advanced into blindness. And with that I was admitted to hospital. That same evening I was given a massive dose of cortisone.

As the hours and days went by, the blackness turned into greyness, hopefully, I thought,  that would eventually turn into whiteness. Every day the doctor asked me how much I could see with respect to the day before and I compared the percentage to the “Fifty Shades of Grey” which provoked a few inadvertent smiles. If, to start off, I could see 50 shades of grey, the day after I would be able to see a less percentage of greyness and so on until one day, to the answer of how many shades I could see I was about to quote my percentage of about... when suddenly I stopped and shouted, “I can see... I can see... I can see all white, no grey!”

So they said I could go home but I would not be discharged. I was still a patient, however, instead of serving my sentence that is of doing my therapy in hospital, I would do it at home.

After about six weeks I took another MRI scan to see if the therapy had had any effect on the growth on the optic nerve. It had! The orbit eye neoformation had gone. It was, as stated: “almost unrecognizable.” Which means, scientifically reasoning, it could not have been a tumour because no amount of cortisone would have reduce it to an almost inexistent status. Apart from showing up without shadow of a doubt on the scan, the symptoms of a neoformation, namely: the dropping of the eye-lid, the double vision, the blindness- were all there- so what was it that caused those symptoms?

The only way to discover what was or still is behind the eye, is to make a biopsy which may endanger the sight since they must remove the eye in order to reach the spot where the growth on the nerve is located and then put the eye back into place.

By unanimous agreement, what in effect happened, we decided we didn’t want to know.

Almost a month has gone by since that last MRI scan and I still see clearly, even better than before and unless the problem returns; what in effect happened, we shall never know. The only thing I can say is that when things are unexplainable- they are called miracles.