Friday, January 2, 2009

Hyperbaric chambers are good for more than the bends and wound healing! After doing 2 one hour-long sessions Wednesday, Thursday and today, Sada is quite literally seeing some definite improvements. You could chalk it up to time and coincidence, but we were told it could be at least a month or two before any changes started occuring.

Sada's been seeing a small circle in the bottom center of her visual field in the left eye, but today it seemed to be a bigger oval and she could see color. Beyond that, while she was covering her right eye and looking around to "test" her left eye, she was moving it 3/4 of the way towards the outside... and since she came out of surgery she's never been able to move it beyond center. Wahoo!!!

It's not a massive change but it is very significant. It means that the inflammation in that area is going down, and more sight recovery is probable instead of possible. Those O2 molecules pack a pretty powerful punch when you get them into the right places with a little extra pressure!

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  1. Of course it's significant! Progress is always the point in recovery---way to go Sada!

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