My 6-Year-Old Son Pushed Me Down the Stairs—When My Sight Suddenly Returned, I Saw the Family Portrait and Realized I Had Been Raising Someone Else’s Child
Memory impairment.
Dissociative symptoms.
Then a phrase:
Functional neurological visual disorder suspected; organic injury does not fully explain reported complete blindness. Neuro-ophthalmology follow-up recommended.
I read it three times.
Follow-up recommended.
Yet Douglas had told me every specialist agreed my blindness was:
“permanent cortical damage.”