Good news I can drive!

I was evaluated today on my ability to drive.  The short answer is: yes, I can continue driving.  What an absolutely exhausting visit.  Working within the limitations of low vision requires a lot of scanning and other "adaptive" techniques to do basic tasks.  And this activity will leave you feeling like your ran a 10K against your best wishes, up hill.  They had this computer test where you are shown a picture of a little car and a little truck.  They look identical except for the truck has a longer bed and shorter cab. Then they flash a picture of one of them on the screen for shorter and shorter periods of time.  We are talking milliseconds.  Then you get a screen asking you whether you saw a car or a truck.  Then they do that and add a second car at a spot in your periphery and ask you to identify car or truck in the center and the location of the car in the periphery.  Then the do all that in the midst of a screen with a lot of visual busyness.  I scored in the normal range for all three tests (and that is normal for those who do not have sight issues).  The OT was very happy with my ability to see in the periphery.  She was also impressed with what all I "can" see with such significant central obstruction.  Due to the instability of my vision I will be evaluated every 6 months to make sure that any changes to my vision are noted and to make sure I am still maintaining the level of safety I am currently employing.