{"id":299,"date":"2020-11-24T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?p=299"},"modified":"2020-11-24T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:11:58","slug":"another-life-changing-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Another Life-changing event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please forgive me for not updating this blog as much as I&#8217;d like. I hadn&#8217;t had time. Well, now I might have more time than I would like.<\/p>\n<p>My eye started hemorrhaging Friday morning, and it got so bad that by Friday afternoon I couldn&#8217;t see anything but squiggly lines, black dots, and cloudy vision. At the same time (literally), the boss called me to read me the riot act, that I wasn&#8217;t pulling my weight at work, that I needed to be there full time, and I needed to find another position. Before I could log off to go to the doctor&#8217;s, I had to sign a &#8220;corrective action form&#8221;&#8211;basically, a write-up. I signed it, reading the writing on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Went to the eye doctor, a harrowing drive there and a worse drive back because it was twilight, and I couldn&#8217;t see anything until it was on top of me. The doctor gave me an injection, and although it cleared up the cloudy vision, it didn&#8217;t get rid of the squiggly lines and dots. I figured it would clear up by Monday, because sometimes it takes a couple of days for the injections to work. It didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I requested a doctor&#8217;s note, knowing this was the final nail in the coffin at work. I started planning.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming this vision thing is temporary, I applied for temporary disability. I also applied for permanent disability.<\/p>\n<p>So this is the end of the line for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please forgive me for not updating this blog as much as I&#8217;d like. I hadn&#8217;t had time. Well, now I might have more time than I would like. My eye started hemorrhaging Friday morning, and it got so bad that by Friday afternoon I couldn&#8217;t see anything but squiggly lines,&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?p=299\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}