None of your colleagues will think any less of you for having surgery, and everyone appreciates that so many things we undergo have side effects. I have never felt anything but support and caring from my colleagues. Of course, I don’t know what they say or think when I’m not around, but it has always felt like they were sincere.
Eye of the beholder, I guess. I see your challenges as greater. How you have learned to succeed with your limited vision is remarkable. All I have done is survive, and my hurdles never were an obstacle to career success.
I had another interview with Linnea this afternoon - this one about my writing. Have you two arranged a second interview yet?