Left eye KC right eye just hurts

[Matthew_]

Hi guys,
Can anyone explain why this is? My left eye is the worst KC affected eye. I have adapted things so that I can do quite a bit of computer work without getting too tired while I finish my MBA dissertation. The problem is that strangely my right eye has started just hurting late at night. Its like a tight circle of pain around the iris, quite acute then eases for a while. Am I just working the right to compensate for the left?

[GarethB]

Matthew,

It would appear you have answerd your own question there

[Matthew_]

OK Thanks.

[Andrew MacLean]

On the basis that good advice is easier to give than it is to take, let me repeat what I have gleaned from years of reading wise posts on this forum.

never spend more than half an hour at a stretch sitting at your computer.

When you are away from your screen, focus on something far away.

If your eyes feel dry, bathe them or use a lubricating eye drop, artificial tear or whatever, something that you have found to help in the past.

Try to keep your vdu at a low light emission level, (I do this by having the screen show text as light against dark and not vice versa)

All the best

Andrew

[Matthew_]

Thanks again. There's a degree of management and sensible understanding of my physical limitations (this is new!) and an element of "oh brother! the deadline is only 3 weeks away!" To be honest, I am more minded to go for broke since missing the deadline means waiting till next july vice this november to graduate. The worst thing is my capacity to type on and on about something...remember there's a word count and cut it out anyway..hopelessly inefficient way of working but I don't think I am unique!

[GarethB]

I find telling my wife what I want to say and then allow her to put it into concise plain English works well.

The same approach is also taken with my performance reviews at work.

[Andrew MacLean]

Matthew

Cut out adjectives. Then adverbs. Then when you have paired your sentences to the very bone, take a look at paragraphs and decide with sentences can go.

It may make you weep: "My prose, my prose, my bonny bonny prose!", but in the end you get the MBA and you can go back to being as verbose as you like.

Where are you doing your MBA?

Andrew

[Matthew_]

Gareth,
Why didn't I think of that, my wife is an excellent typist, she is also good at english, and she has good eyes! (6/4 6/4!!!) Mind you, she also has a broken back and severe brittle asthma so I am not about to swap thanks very much.
Andrew,
Thanks, good advice I am going to do that right now! I have 12 000 words in my lit review which should be half of the overall project which is meant to be 13-16000 words - time to get seriously medieval on that lit review!
I am studying at Strathclyde.

[Andrew MacLean]

I used to be University Chaplain at Strathclyde U. My wife works there: she is a University Administrator based in the Library.

Alison ( my wife ) completed an MSc in Human Resource Management last year, so 12 months ago she was going through the last minute push, then the visit to the binder and submission, all in time for the conferral of her Masters last November.

She now has a small string of publications either already in journals or awaiting the next issue.

Will your MBA open the door to promotion?

Andrew

[GarethB]

I haven't the patience for a Masters, but I have enough respect for those who get on with it. That's why I take on a new MSc student each year. My current student has 8 days to finish the practical work and another 5 days to complete the project report and give a dissertation. Two days later she starts at a rival company!

Surprised my student today by talking with her new boss

Not only does she live just down the road from where I used to live in Hitchin, her new boss is a very good friend of mine who used to be my customer

Another MSc student we have lives near where I went to Uni and the third one from Trini, her mother is my friends second cousen I went to Uni with.

Small world