Eyestrain Took Me Off My Computer for 5 Days

I haven’t blogged here in a few days. The reason is because my eyes were strained greatly for the past 5 days. At work I was was responsible for email support for a week. This meant hours of reading and writing email to our customers. By Friday my eyes didn’t want to focus on anything. I was dizzy and my eyes were dry and in pain. I decided to just ease off. I took my contacts out, went around blind and did the best I could without focusing on too much. This also meant no TV.

Let this be a reminder that you should take regular breaks when using your computer. My sister’s work advises a few minutes of focusing your eyes on something else every 7 minutes of looking at a computer display. This can be hard to do for techies such as myself. But if you don’t want to be shut down for 5 days like mine were, you might want to make an effort to give your eyes a break.