Struggles

This has been quite a hard week, and it's only Thursday! I have noticed how Stargardt's is starting to affect me more at work, making me more focused on the problems I am having. I have found that I have made mistakes due to misreading things. In particular names and numbers. As I work in a hospital, everything revolves around a patient's number, and I find I have to look at something 2 or 3 times before I can figure out what it says (while entering it on the computer wrong and getting frustrated). This is even when I use my Zoomtext software. I guess I could make my font even larger, but I don't think I could accept that it needs to be bigger. I also get enough comments about how big my text is.

When I've come home, my eyes are so sore and tired that they feel constricted. I use my 'sore eyes' drops but they give me relief for about 20 minutes only. I feel like I need to soak my eyes in icy water because they are hot and irritated. I've come to realise that I need to seriously consider other careers that put less strain on my eyes. The hard question though is what can I do? I'm very much a perfectionist and need a challenging job that is different every day. I also love Working in health. It's a hard question but I seriously need to do some thinking.