I have not been to this site in months! On June 8, 2009 my daughter collided with another girl playing soccer. She was diagnosed with a orbital fracture and severe concussion. Initially she could not walk, her memory was very bad, and too much stimulation gave her extreme headaches. She became an every other week patient at Children's Memorial in Chicago. Every visit was the same thing - we don't know how long the healing process will take come back in two weeks. After six months they wanted to put her on antidepressants and beta blockers - they could not give me any solid proof that these would help her. To me it sounded like it would just numb her symptoms, so we declined.

Though we kept going back to Children's I was alway looking for other answers. We went to many many hospitals, doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, etc. I could not except that this was going to be her life. Finally late May 2010 we went to see Dr Deborah Zelinski at The Mind Eye Connection. She did her "magic" put colored contacts on my daughter and life turned around. It was not instant, the first week she still had some pretty bad headaches. Today when wearing the contacts she is her old self. She just recently made a regional team again after 14 months of debilitating headaches. Scares me, but it's what she loves.

I question now how bad the concussion really was. Yes, I think she had one. But all those doctors we saw never looked past it. Was the damage to her brain or her eyes? We went to two different eye doctors and neither of them found this until Dr. Z. She had my daughter close her eyes, then she put colored lenses over them and rang a bell. My daughter had to find the bell with her finger, amazing, the 3rd or 4th color she used was teal and her finger went right to the bell. She also did they same type of test using prisms - the angle the light entered her eyes affected her ability to find the bell. I call it magic because I never even realized we still can see with our eyes closed. She did the testing on me and because I have good eyesight the only way I could not find the bell was when she put solid black over my closed eyes. Amazing!

Also, just a few days ago, my daughter was practicing in a racquetball court before school, when I went to get her I could see instantly she had a headache. Sure enough she forgot her contacts. Her workout was not very intense, it did not take much to bring the headache on. However she went home showered put on her contacts and by the time she came down for breakfast it was gone!

I know every case is different, but don't give up hope. Keep looking for a solution. I think some of these doctors are stuck in the "same old" rut, there are many new things we are learning, keep searching. I wish you all find the solution to a pain free existence!