Monster Eyes

[mhnicholson]

I'm in the waiting room of my GP, and have just been informed that I have monster eyes. The informant is about four or five years old, so I take this information as impeccably reliable. I have an ongoing condition called cluster headaches.In the range of suffers of the condition I'm roughly in the middle. I have my clusters about 7-9 months

Comments

[some_other_dave]

Well, compared to you most of us *are* blithering idiots. Though it is considered impolitic to remind us.

[canyonwalker]

My sympathies while you go through this. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

BTW my experience is that disappearing for a bit during the day is no problem unless you've got people expecting to find you for impromptu conversations constantly. If that's the case you can focus on having those interactions while your energy level is higher and condition people to contact you via email (or other asynchronous tools) at other times. In this day and age with geographically dispersed teams being the norm that's a reasonable expectation to set. Also, I've found that working at odd hours gets noticed if it's evident to people (from email or those other async tools) that you're doing real work at those times as opposed to simply dashing off superficial responses.

[mhnicholson]

Thanks.

At larger companies I find I can book meetings with myself and disappear without really being noticed. Now that I'm in a company of 12 with maybe 40 feet from one end of the office to the other, I need to find a new way to check out gracefully. Maybe I'll just grow the company big enough to use the large company strategy over the next year.

[aliza250]

Ouch.