{"id":52,"date":"2000-05-09T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2000-05-09T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2000\/05\/09\/eye-surgery-entry-eight\/"},"modified":"2015-04-09T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T18:17:34","slug":"eye-surgery-entry-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2000\/05\/09\/eye-surgery-entry-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Surgery: Entry Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>AVOIDING EYE STRAIN<\/h3>\n<p>I have installed a program called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheqsoft.com\/break.html\">Break Reminder<\/a><\/strong> on my PC. It pops up every 10 minutes (or whatever interval you want) to remind you to take a &#8220;micropause&#8221; &#8211; looking away and\/or stretching for a number of seconds (also configurable). When it pops up, I spend ten seconds looking out my window, focusing on far-away objects. Then I close my eyes for a few seconds and relax them.<\/p>\n<p>These simple things, which take about a minute each hour, brought my vision back to 20\/20 after a regression. Everyone who works on a computer should do this, but <strong>especially anyone who has had eye surgery<\/strong>. If you value your new-found vision, take care of it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Computer Eyestrain Journal ~ Very comprehensive. Take a quiz to see if you have eyestrain, get specific tips to help, etc.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/eyestrain\/WL00060\">How to Relieve Eyestrain<\/a> ~ from the Mayo Clinic<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.ibm.com\/ww\/healthycomputing\/vdt10.html\">Healthy Computing: Vision<\/a> ~ from IBM\/Lenovo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdage.com\/features\/healthy\/sola\/\">Do You have Computer Vision Syndrome?<\/a> ~ Take a quiz to find out<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynton.com\/notes\/reducing_eyestrain\/index.html\">Reducing Eyestrain<\/a> ~ An article with detailed, scientifically-based adjustments you can make<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;micropause&#8221; &#8211; looking away and\/or stretching for a number of seconds (also configurable). When it pops up, I spend ten seconds looking out my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}