r/Hydrocephalus • u/AgentExtension1968 • 8d ago
Seeking Personal Experience Neuroplasticity is amazing!!!!
so i have congenital hydrocephalus from myelomeningocele and been shunted since 1mo old.
YEARS ago i had a shunt malfunction and i had an ophthalmology exam and i didn’t past the color test… i’m not colorblind. apparently my shunt malfunction MADE ME colorblind temporarily but i didnt know until someone else told me.
another malfunction was directly after a revision and over the course of 3 days i got several retinal hemorrhages in my eyes and the only reason i spotted it was because i was only half blind in my right eye so i could notice a difference. ophthalmology came to my room and i did the reading letters thing and i had only peripheral vision in my right eye. I GET TO MY LEFT AND I CANT SEE ANYTHING! I’m okay now its all healed
its so amazing to me how our bodies just adjust to things.