H-Day! Or Heart Day! Good News Wooo-Hoooo!

[mrspunkysmom]

Stay careful! Do you have a wrist rest so you could use the computer while keeping your wrist relatively immobile?

Thank you, I will.

I do but it's not big enough. Hands and arms must be more elevated than the wrist rest would make them. Training as a concert pianist has taught me how to type and avoid wrist strain. If you hurt, you are doing it wrong, whether typing or playing piano. That plain and simple. We should sit higher than we do to use a computer. Right now most of the strain is in my left shoulder.

Still I am trying not to type too much to avoid any repetitive actions. The hand does tire and swell a little. Putting a catheter through the wrist is painful. I take lots of breaks.

It's the repetitive motions using the mouse that is my downfall. So no mouse for several days.

[Karen]

Thank you, I will.

I do but it's not big enough. Hands and arms must be more elevated than the wrist rest would make them. Training as a concert pianist has taught me how to type and avoid wrist strain. If you hurt, you are doing it wrong, whether typing or playing piano. That plain and simple. We should sit higher than we do to use a computer. Right now most of the strain is in my left shoulder.

Still I am trying not to type too much to avoid any repetitive actions. The hand does tire and swell a little. Putting a catheter through the wrist is painful. I take lots of breaks.

It's the repetitive motions using the mouse that is my downfall. So no mouse for several days.

Oh, so you need a taller chair? Or a lower desk? Have you tried - just for chuckles - mousing with your other hand? Might be good practice ...

[mrspunkysmom]

Oh, so you need a taller chair? Or a lower desk? Have you tried - just for chuckles - mousing with your other hand? Might be good practice ...

Like the secretaries of old. The typing desk was lower than the writing desk. I need to get the computer chair back in this room. Thought I was allergic earlier in the year.

Yeah Mousing with the left hand. That was so annoying and hilarious. I think I will practice just for the experience and train my self. The hand isn't the issue; it's the training of the brain.

Right now, I am using the mouse touch pad on the laptop. Fewer mistakes and frustrations.

I think you created a new verb: mousing. I like it.