Here’s the deal…

Because of my diabetes, I have an eye condition that many days causes blurriness of vision due to bleeding in my eye (sorry to be gross.) On top of that, I have developed a very high sensitivity to light which sunglasses help with somewhat but not entirely.

My boss has asked me to travel to another location about 45 minutes away to perform a task that could just as easily be accomplished remotely…except that he wants me to go there in person. He is aware of my eye issues, but all of a sudden is questioning my not wanting to drive such a far distance. Normally, I do not have to drive for my job (except to go to the bank once a month, which is maybe 5–10 minutes away on side roads). At least once my eyes have been so bad that he had someone drive me to the bank, as I did not feel safe driving that day. Also, the severity of the blurriness varies somewhat from day to day, but the high sensitivity to light is consistent, which is one major concern to my making the above required trip.

He argues that if I can drive back and forth to work (a ten-minute trip), that I should be able to make this drive to the other school.

Help! Do I have any leg to stand on, or am I out of luck?