I'm a chef/owner of a catering business and hurt myself two hours prior to an event. Through sheer will I mananged to finish cooking and called in staff to work that night. Three days later I had an event for 350. Got through that by working constantly with headaches and then just went to bed for three weeks straight. Very little visual or auditory stimulation during that time. This was 2 months ago.

Slowly I am getting back to perhaps 50% of what I normally could do prior to injury. I limit my time on the computer, although if it is just reading etc I can handle it. No data entry etc...I start getting a headache. What I still can't handle is noise or sudden bursts of light etc. That brings on the pressure headache almost instantaneously. So if I am doing "light" work I'm okay..anything that requires too much "figuring out" (like trying to figure out the right words..LOL) I do go back to headaches, eye pressure, nervousness etc.

It's indredibly hard to hold yourself back when you are a small business owner..there are just so many jobs that only I can do; otherwise explaining is worse than doing it myself...I do delegate whatever I can. I know my limits right now. I have to keep within those in order to constantly progress in a positive way.