I'm Blind!

[elfs]

I'm typing this barely able to see and relying on the spell checker later to get any spelling errors. My eyeballs are dialated to Hell and back and I'm wearing sunglasses because the light spilling into my eyes is just brutalizing. I've just been to the optometrist's office because I'm experiencing intermittent eye pain and have started to have trouble focusing on items close in.

My eyes are very healthy, like the rest of me. The muscles in my eyes don't get enough of a workout from sitting at a computer all day, so basically my instructions are to sit further away from the workstation and try to look outside the window once in a while, focusing on things at different distances, every twenty minutes or so. Oh, and get a better pair of sunglasess. If I'm having trouble focussing close in late at night, there's a prescription I can get in a couple of months if just changing the erognomics doesn't help.

As a writer, that's not hard. I touch type, frequently with my eyes closed, like I'm typing this. As a programmer, it's just impossible to not focus for long periods of time. I'm going to have to figure out something.

First tendonitis in my typing hands, now computer-related presbyopia. Great. Just freakin' great.

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[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

A few years back, my wrists were starting to hurt when I worked on the computer for too long. I taught myself to type in Dvorak: no more owies, for the most part.