...hey all you wonderful people... (sorry in advance for the marathon post that you are about to read)... I went to my Physio Doctor today and she put me through quite a load of different tests in regards to my walking/hand movements/cognitive and vision tests... (there was also another Doctor from Katoomba Hospital doing the tests with her)... they were quite astounded by my recovery being as advanced as it is... (their words... not mine)... they could not believe that my left hand is 99% operational compared to the last time that they saw me... (that other 1% is for my lack of strength in that hand)...
...well guess what?... I passed every single one of their tests!!!!!... they did say though that my left leg is not operating as good as it should be because as they were testing me while I was walking they both noticed that my surrounding leg muscles behind my left knee area were lacking in some movements... they both agreed that I need to come to the 'Outpatients Physio' at the Hospital for more therapy to get it functioning at 100%... they think that I'm still at about the 80% mark in my walking abilities as I had told you when I assessed my capabilities to you all in previous posts... (so I was pretty much spot on when telling you all of my abilities)...
...although my Neurologist told me on Saturday that she couldn't sanction me having my license back because it was a decision that my Physio Doctor had to make I asked the Doctors assessing me whether they would sanction me to drive again being hat I had passed all of their tests 100%...
Fingers crossed your Dr isn't someone like Dr Patel and overrides the law!
That law is there for a reason, and it is not just to protect you, it's to protect the poor innocent bastards travelling in the opposite direction!! You would be shocked at the amount of road injuries and fatalities that are the result of people choosing to drive with a health condition, despite being banned from driving.
Three months from your life without driving is nothing. Pretend it is a DUI.
Wonderful to hear you are progressing so well, and enjoy being chauffeured. Xo
...I fully agree with that Trala and have been quite happy to obey that Law and the reasons for it... hence my patience with all of this up until now... anyone that drives regardless is an idiot in my opinion... anyhow...
they told me... YES!!!!!!...
on the proviso that I go to an Optometrist and have a field vision and peripheral vision test and fully pass it and have the Optometrist sign on the dotted line so that I could take that form to the Road Transit Authority... (or whatever it's called nowadays)... for them to clear me to drive again... they had both agreed that physically I had made the grade to be able to drive again pending the Optometrists report...
...when I went to the Optometrist I then went for a whole lot more tests... one of the tests was what truck drivers have to take all of the time... it involves having to put your head into an almost ball-shaped device that has one light glowing straight in front of you and you
must stare at that only otherwise it fails you... you have a button in a hand held device that you have to click each time that a pinpoint light glows all around you... you have to keep clicking until about 100 clicks later... I accidentally clicked it on one occasion when I didn't mean to and told it to the Optometrist and he said that I'm allowed 1 mistake...
...well... I passed 100%!!!!!.. the RTA had just closed 10 minutes before the end of the test... he signed the form that I have to present to the RTA tomorrow and
I get my license back!!!!!!...
WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!... I am so happy!... I'm sooooo proud of myself because of the hard work that I have put into this... I feel like a million dollars... I really do... I've been giving myself mental 'high fives' all evening lol!...
...the main Physio Doctor that I saw today was my 'case Doctor'... (I guess she is called)... she is the first Doctor that saw me when I originally went into the Hawkesbury District Hospital at Windsor on the first day of this continuing up at Katoomba Hospital too... she was the Doctor that gave me hope in recovering 100% on day one because she saw that I had such grim determination to beat this... her words back then are what got me initially started in this journey... the look on her face when she had seen how far I had come was so worth all of those grueling hours of exercise... I felt so proud of myself right there and then...
...they had the results of two of the tests that I had undergone... one of them was where they stuck a gizmo down my throat until it lined up alongside my heart to take readings... according to the results everything to do with my heart is working as it should be so my heart is not a problem at this point in time... the other one was the results of the scan of the veins on the back of my neck... there are no blockages whatsoever so they are working properly too... they still have to see the results of some other tests that I've taken so I don't know about those yet obviously... they told me that I will be having a number of other tests until they pinpoint what caused my stroke so I was happy to hear that... after all... I want to know what caused the bloody thing...
...well folks... that's it... I'm happy with myself... I'm proud of myself... I'll be driving again tomorrow onwards!!!... what a beautiful wonderful day it is today despite all of the torrential rain happening all day lololol!... (again... sorry for the marathon read peoples)... cheers.