Amblyopia Dammit…

The State of the Writer on the last day of 2024.

‘Writing at my desk #2’. (Well perhaps one day I might have a study space like this one.) An image created by me using Flux Schnell in Night Cafe.

This morning my ‘good’ eye really started to hurt. I hadn’t even been doing much in the way of screen time at that hour of the morning when my eye got itself in right old hot bath of pain and sparked off a sharp jab of a headache that went right to the back of my skull; — Dammit!

I’d been pacing myself with using my desktop computer too and shutting it down after about an hour or so of continuous use. Despite using the Dark Reader plugin and having the blue light cut to the minimum in the monitor settings my ‘good’ eye still wasn’t happy about it and if I tried pushing on any more than that my eye would start to get sore.

Since I couldn’t write all that much I’d been reading which seem to be fine since neither my Kindle nor my KOBO reader had never been a problem before, but I will admit to attempting to consume a novel at one sitting the day before my ‘good’ eye decided to riot.

I had been patching my eye occasionally over the past several days which seemed to help and I may have lulled myself into thinking that I would be fine so long as I rationed my time sitting in front of monitor screens.

I can tell you quite honestly that patching my eye this morning was no fun. Being used to steering my way around my house with my ‘good’…