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I feel a bit like starrant. There have been a string of people who feel that accepting their VS means they won't participate on the board. We've gotten a number of farewell announcements along these lines. I guess I respect that decision, but I've not really had a problem accepting my VS and still hanging out here. But, I can only walk in my own shoes, so to speak.

I suppose if you are having trouble with obsessing over an issue, and a board like this feeds your obsession, then that isn't the healthiest thing to subject yourself to.

However, knowing some of the truths about health conditions, like a probability that things may stay the same rather than improve, is an important step on the road to acceptance. I went ahead and vastly changed aspects of my life under the assumption that I would have annoying vision for a long time, and now I have a well-organized, functioning career that fits within the bounds of my "limitations." I have different hobbies. I know that giant action movies are just out of the question because allt hat crap going across the screen just doesn't work for me. I had to be in physical therapy to be able to walk a straight line and not hold onto the walls. In't went through a couple rounds of therapy to deal with this crap. All of that painful effort has been worthwhile, and wouldn't have happened unless I forced myself to come to terms with what was happening to me.

Another part of that acceptance process, and a nice benefit of the board, could be finding out that every new little symptom you have when an illness first hits is "normal" for that illness, and doesn't mean you have a brain tumor, for instance. It has been reassuring to me to know that at least a few other people out there have the same constellation of symptoms that I do.

The VS and the PMA is my normal way of experiencing the world now. It has been that way for 2 years, 2 months, and 22 days. At the point where I am now, this board is something that helps enrich my experience of this wacky view of the world.