Archive for May, 2000

Eye Surgery: Entry Eight

By kate on May 9th, 2000

AVOIDING EYE STRAIN I have installed a program called Break Reminder on my PC. It pops up every 10 minutes (or whatever interval you want) to remind you to take a “micropause” – looking away and/or stretching for a number of seconds (also configurable). When it pops up, I spend ten seconds looking out my […]

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Eye Surgery: Entry Seven

By kate on May 8th, 2000

A WHODUNIT My left eye continued to regress until it was almost 20/40. I got a stronger prescription for the contact I was wearing. As the months went by, I was gritting it out until a year after the surgery, at which point the eye doctor would assess whether the regression had finished and if […]