I'm 78, almost 79, it is getting very late for me, HI HI.
Lowell W8QIY
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hillebrandt" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: OT Optic Nerve Regeneration
> Hi Lowell,
> I was born with no optic nerve at all as far as doctors can tell, but I
> was able to see a small amount til approx age 11 or 12 where vision just
> slowly faded over a year or so. As you say, there is nothing as of yet for
> regeneration of these nerve cells but there is a lot of work being done
> for
> people with spinal cord injuries and many scientists have commented this
> is
> somewhat in the same direction so you never know. God is certainly the
> answer but scientists are on the edge of many breakthroughs and one doctor
> said he'd be surprised if they didn't come up with something while I'm
> still
> alive. I'm age 52 now so they had better hurry. Dave w4ci
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lowell Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: OT Optic Nerve Regeneration
>
>
>> Hello Mark,
>> Well, when I was born, the doctor forced my birth and destroyed my optic
>> nerves in each eye.
>> Doctors told my parents that I would never see. However, when I was
>> about
>> 4
>> years old, I began to see a little and each year it continued to
>> increase.
>> By the time I was about 8 years old, I had about 7% vision. I was able to
>> see colors in bright sun light. I rode a bicycle and other things I
>> should
>> not have done with so little vision. The bad thing is that at about 15
>> years old, my sight began to fade and by the time I was 25 or 30, I had
>> only
>> light perception left. Even that disappeared in another few years until
>> I
>> was a total as I am today.
>> No, there is no way to regenerate vision apart from a miracle from our
>> Lord.
>> That's my story and I am going to stick with it, HI HI.
>> Best 73.
>> Lowell W8QIY
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark Torgerson" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:38 AM
>> Subject: OT Optic Nerve Regeneration
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>> I wasn=E2=80=99t really sure where to ask a question like this, but =
>>> I know that hams are resourceful folks. So, here it goes.=20
>>> I went blind at age 4 from an apses that crushed my optic nerve =
>>> where it crosses. Thus, I went totally blind in both eyes. The doctors =
>>> back then (41 years ago) said that optic nerves can never regenerate or
>>> =
>>> grow back. So, I would be completely blind the rest of my life... Well,
>>> =
>>> I accepted their sentence on my life, and got on with creating the best
>>> =
>>> life I could. After all, The doctors had told my parents several times =
>>> that I would not survive, and if I did, I would not be able to move, =
>>> smell, hear, ETC. I would be a vegetable. Well, God intervened, and all
>>> =
>>> I am is blind.=20
>>> Well, all this being the case, you can imagine my surprise when my =
>>> family and I were driving down the freeway, and suddenly there was a =
>>> flash of something in my face. It was in the middle of the dark night, =
>>> and we had just met a car with its lights on bright. I must have been in
>>> =
>>> my late teens by this point. More time passed and I started noticing =
>>> lightening. Strange for someone whose optic nerve could not regenerate.
>>> =
>>> So, I went to an eye doctor who told me, again, that nothing could be =
>>> done for optic nerve damage.=20
>>> Well, time keeps moving forward, and a strange thing is going on for
>>> =
>>> me. Sometimes I can tell a wall is in front of me or perhaps a chair. =
>>> However, there is little if any shape to them. No color either. Just a =
>>> visual something is their. Then the next day I am walking along, and =
>>> walk smack dab in to the same object with no visual sense of its being =
>>> there at all. I went to another I doctor and asked him to explain. He =
>>> said that sometimes optic nerves do grow back but whatever =
>>> =E2=80=9Csight=E2=80=9D I had was about as good as I could expect. He =
>>> ranked me as having light perception in my right I. Well, at least I did
>>> =
>>> the day I saw him. Who knows about the next day.
>>> The question I have is this. Is this normal getting some optic nerve
>>> =
>>> regeneration? What can I do to speed up this process? How do I go about
>>> =
>>> finding out more about this topic? Almost everything I read gives me the
>>> =
>>> same old line about nothing being possible. I just think that after 41 =
>>> years, surely there is more and better information, and healing =
>>> techniques available.=20
>>> Any insight or resources are appreciated.=20
>>>
>>> God bless,
>>> Mark and my beautiful wife Noella
>>> God loves You!
>>> My YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChristianTraditions2
>>> The Blind Computer People List: =
>>> http://christiantraditions.info/mailman/listinfo/blindcomputerpeople_chri=
>>> stiantraditions.info
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>>>
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