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Exploding Eyeballs | |
March 14th, 2018 | |
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My eyes started causing me issues in November. I was driving home | |
after work and the lights of the cars seemed cranked up to 11. | |
There were halos and pulses on everything. My short drive home | |
left me squinting and tearing up. By January, I couldn't continue | |
looking at my computer screen after 4pm. I needed longer and | |
longer breaks in order to recouperate. | |
I saw an eye doctor in February and got checked out. "It's good | |
news and bad news," she said. "The good news is your eyes are | |
perfectly healthy. There are no signs of glaucoma or cataracts, | |
the retinas are healthy. Everything looks good." I nodded. "That's | |
also the bad news. You shouldn't be having these issues." | |
In the end, she recommended I get special glasses with amber tints | |
to block the blue light. My first pair arrived yesterday. | |
It's about 8pm now and I've been looking at screens all day. Just | |
now my eyes are starting to dry up and feel tired. I think that's | |
more acceptible than the 4pm thing. Still, I wish it wouldn't | |
happen at all. |