Hi Redditors,
For 5-7 weeks now I’ve been having growing vision problems. My eye doctor doesn’t know the cause and has referred me to a local university. I’m still waiting to be able to schedule but it normally takes a couple of months to get an appointment.

In the meantime, a new progression is affecting my ability to work. It comes and goes but I keep being unable to read. Sometimes the letters just blur too much, other times I can physically see the letters/numbers but I can’t process more than 2-3 at a time. When the latter happens, I’m disoriented, light bothers me, and I get headaches.

The reading problems are a major problem when they flare at work. I’m a customer service rep at a bridal salon and when it flares up I: can’t read the comments and phone numbers to make reminder calls, can’t check people in because I can’t find their appointments, I can’t take most phone calls because most involve looking stuff up on the computer, I can’t do receiving because I can’t read the screen to confirm I have the right stuff, and I can’t put dresses away because I can’t read the style numbers on the tags or placeholders to make sure they end up in the right spot. All of those tasks are 99.95% of my job.

Does anyone have any tips on how to work around this until I can get a diagnosis and get formal help? I need this job so I can pay for school in the fall. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.