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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kawasaki, 2020.04.02

I use eye drops on a fairly regular basis for a couple reasons. First, my right eye is misshaped and due to a childhood concussion sits a bit forward in the socket. This means that it doesn't always closed properly at night, I'm told, and is slowly drying and congealing. In the scans I have "haze" in my eye goo. So I occasionally remember to use drops for that. Otherwise, I use a topical off-the-shelf thing when I've been staring at a monitor for many hours.

The drops I've found effective contain something called cromolyn sodium ophthalmic solution. I thought I might find this at the locale drug store (because I found a particularly good store) but despite there being about 35 products on offer, I am reminded again how different this place is. Because it's not just that there is such a profusion of products but that they have weird variants like mint flavoring. Why do you need flavored eye drops?

It's a fairly low-priority matter but suffice it to say that I'll be starting my research into eye drops all over again.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.