My balance is coming back!! Whoo Hoo! Almost 18-months to the day of the accident, I am now able to stand on one leg - both left and right sides - for short periods of time without losing my balance. This is huge!! I used to have great balance, able to stand in a yoga tree pose for quite a while. I now have hope that it will possible once again.
The pressure in my head seems to be diminishing as well. The past few days have seen their share of thunderstorms and I had only slight pressure behind my eye. I didn't feel that I was walking the edge of the migraine abyss. Another bravo!
On the not so great side, I still have a lot of sensitivity to light. I'm still easily overwhelmed and have to take in information in tiny little nuggets to get it to stick.
As I head off to the conference - driving because I'm not yet ready to risk the pressure changes of flying (nothing like teaching with a full blown migraine - been there, no fun) - I review the route to places I've been hundreds of times. I used to live in Maryland for heaven's sake. Still, it all seems so vague. My first worry is managing the construction near the Illinois/Indiana border - going east for the wedding in June I got lost and had to turn around. After that, it's I-80 for a long, long way. Thank heaven for interstates. And for rest stops. I have a plan -- take it in small chunks and stop often.
I wish the DOT would get wise and simply put elevated high speed rails down the median along the major interstates. They go where we need them to go and the environmental damage has already been done.
