One Out of a Hundred
One out of a hundred...now that would not be such a great thing if on a math test if that was all that you had gotten right. And it certainly would not be a good thing if you only got one coconut jelly bean out of a hundred tropical flavored jelly beans. Nor would you want to be the only one out of a hundred not to have been chosen to attend a special event, but at my recent eye exam, when my doctor told me I was one out of a hundred I was thrilled. About a year and a half ago, I was having issues with my eye. They thought it had been a stroke, but it ended up being something else that had caused the optic nerve to be damaged by lack of oxygen. The tests last week showed that there was no evidence of any damage to the optic nerve and no peripheral loss of vision when less than a year ago my neurological ophthalmologist had informed me that the issue would probably never get any better. The doctor said that only one in one hundred people who had suffered what I had would hea...