tomhudson's Journal: One step closer to "The End".

Tomorrow, on my way to my next doctors' appointment, I'm hand-serving notice to the government giving them 48 hours before filing a complaint against them with the local human rights commission for actively discriminating against me on the basis of a physical handicap. I'm fed up with being in a situation that I have no control over, that I can't do anything to fix, that's just going to get worse with time, and not getting ANY help whatsoever.

There's no two ways about it ... both eyes are going. I can surf the web for 10 - 20 minutes with everything triple size, then I have to take a break for a few hours. Trying to write code has become an exercise in frustration, even with 2 x 26" screens and 30pt fonts (and let me tell you, you don't see all that much code at 30 points, so my productivity is not the greatest, never mind my occasionally losing sight of the mouse pointer completely).

I did a few hours on Friday evening to finish the actual code, so all that's left is some conversion functions, and slapping together some descriptive web pages. But I simply can't bring myself to do it. Saturday was a non-starter. I tried Sunday, and had to stop after 15 minutes. Monday? After going on the net over breakfast, it was obvious I wasn't going to be able to do any real work.

It sucks when it takes a week to do a days' worth of stuff.

The worst part is that as far as our wonderful government is concerned, unless I am pretty much totally blind, I'm "able to work". Even though nobody's going to hire me as a programmer (or anything else) if I can only work on $RANDOM_DAYS for $RANDOM_HOURS at a time.

I've had to deal with a lot of problems, but this, on top of everything else ... there's no real solution.

I'm sorry...

[jawtheshark]

I can't say much more... This would be one of my worst nightmares.

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[tomhudson]

Well, it's motivating me to finally retaliate, so maybe it's not ALL bad. Who knows - it might also be a good time to settle some old scores with the government on other issues that should have been dealt with a long time ago, but which I've been rather reluctant to address.

Shooting Trap

[Stargoat]

Have you ever tried shooting trap or skeet, or any activity that requires long distance focus? I found that once I began, my eyes actually improved after decades of just the opposite. My eye doctor was astounded.

this sucks

[tqft]

I hope there is a good outcome.

Hopefully there is a hook to get the government to help you somehow.

At least you are trying to do something

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[tomhudson]

I'm going to try, but it's so depressing just thinking about going up against the bureaucracy ... one ... more ... time! It's like fighting with idiots - they drag you down to their level of mind-numbing stupidity, then beat you up with their experience ... or just wear you out. Almost like they have a "don't know, don't wanna know" attitude.

There are those inside the "system" who will speak off the record, and they agree, the system seems to almost act like its there to preserve itself as its first pri