On Monday, my hand doctor says, I am going to get an electromyography. She’d like to see if my forearm muscles are getting damaged enough to worry.
I’ve been trying to take care of my hands and arms, but haven’t been trying hard enough, obviously. Wake up and re-prioritize, again.
(Re-prioritizing doesn’t mean typing less; I don’t think I could cut down enough for it to matter. Working more responsibly, giving myself breaks, icing the tendons, taking Aleve, taking the time for yoga, that I could do.)
I dislike feeling physically limited. Am also deeply thankful that this is my biggest limitation.
Ever played with speech dictation software? I know there are some in other languages, even.
Probably not good for everything, but for correspondence and blogging it might work.
just a thought.
I might look into it, but a lot of the work immediately ahead of me is XML [en]coding, and the work I do for an anthropology prof., which also doesn’t lend itself to dictation. It’s a good idea, though; I should talk to Rob about it.
Cee’s brother’s (first) wife Holly has experience with Dragon software and could review it for you. Ask me for her email if you’re interested. I also have a blind friend who uses speech software for school quite a bit, but I’m not sure that he has email.