I Have A Medical Condition
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I have trabismus. The doc said twelve months; maybe more.
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Did I succeed in scaring you? And you, Nukaya? Scared?
You may know the condition as 'lazy eye,' and it is not going to kill me. 
It should be fixed with a year or so of therapy.
I've known that my right eye veers to the side sometimes for quite a while now. For at least a year, Mom has made comments about how hard it is to tell what I am looking at when we talk, and in recent history, my eye's curious movements have been the subject of much attention in my Boy Scout troop (it's a wonderful tactic to freak new guys out in staring contests).
So, I came back from the optometrist (who just so happens to be my scoutmaster XD) an hour ago. Turns out BOTH my eyes are lazy. My brain only uses one eye at a time, and thus the other, non-used eye drifts off to the side as it is neglected by the brain. My left eye veers off a little less than the right eye, though, so it's a bit harder to recognize. As a result, I have a lack of depth perception and a difficulty focusing on things, but thankfully nothing that will make me any more a danger on the road than I already am.
So now, I'll be doing some therapy on myself to get my eyes to work together, and make my brain use both eyes at once. Now I finally get why it is that I am prone to flinching and more reflexive actions when sparring, cuz I can never tell how close the opponent's staff is! >.<
So yeah.
~EW~
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