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As per usual post-cruise I am feeling slightly ill as my brain attempts to get used to the floor not constantly moving, and as the meds I take that keep me from seasickness slowly wear off. I use the scopolamine patch, which has a side effect of making extremely fine muscle movement difficult to control. What that means in layman's terms is that my eyes find it difficult to focus. It doesn't affect me in non-work life as I can bump the text size up on ereaders as much as necessary, and hold books and magazines as near or far from my face as I need, but at work, when I have a more-or-less fixed distance from my monitor and a limit to changes I can do to text size on various programs...yeah.

(Please do not suggest other options for motion sickness. I have tried them all and this works out the best. Pressure point bands are placebo* [and I have RSI that means I can't compress my wrists anyway], meclizine [Bonine] gives me unbearable restless legs, Dramamine and its ilk put me to sleep, and ginger is good for short periods of time, then wears off all at once. Scopolamine gives me perfect non-sickness for a week, at the cost of a few days of being unable to see my screen clearly. I'm happy with that.)

I should play some video games while the meds are still in my system, actually.

* On Reddit I came across an exchange I found hilarious: someone saying that the pressure point bands were great, they just took a couple of days to kick in. Uh, yeah: that couple of days was you becoming acclimatized to the ship, nothing to do with the bands.