Stop being so modest!  Some employers are reluctant to have people with
sight difficulties on their staff.  They seem to think that we (yes, include
me) cannot do a *real* job.   Many congratulations on your award.
I was lucky to be already employed by the government when I started to have
serious problems with my eyes. Under our (UK) Disability Discrimination Act
it would have been illegal if they had said "we don't want you any more."
So they had to spend megabucks on special equipment for me and now I am able
to do my job as well as I did before.
They were supposed to provide a taxi to and from work for me in the darkest
days of the winter because I cannot see in the dark now, but I just reduced
my hours to 9-3.30.  I was working full time until then.
It will affect my pension.  I just thought "I have been working full time
since I was 15, take this opportunity to give yourself a break"
My pension will depend on the hours I worked in the last 2 years before
retirement. I have a way to go yet, but what I might do is to to insist that
in those last two years I get that taxi.  I declined it before, because the
financial contribution I would have to make towards it cancelled out what I
would earn for two days.

Tweed