Dan Waters
dwaters at usinternet.com
Wed Dec 2 19:29:38 CST 2009
The three things that help me the most are:
a lightweight mouse (wired MS 3000 Optical),
a gamer's mousepad - very low friction (cut down to reasonable size),
and a split keyboard (MS 4000).
Before these I used to get sore wrists, but that's gone now!
Dan
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Kathryn Bassett
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:07 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dual monitor laptop
JC said:
> It is odd because I have been expecting issues for years and never had
> any. How many thousands of
> hours have we done this stuff? Now something is happening in the right
> elbow. I can't say for sure
> that it is computer related but given what I do...
For over a year I was having a problem with my elbow. Dr diagnosed "tennis
elbow". Took two shots of cortisone (about 4 months apart) to solve the
problem and I've been ok for a couple years now.
I've been asked how I've managed to avoid carpel tunnel since I've been into
computers since 1978. I think it's because I'm constantly taking my hand off
the keyboard/mouse and flexing/rotating my wrist. I am having problems now
but it's because of the severity of my arthritis, not the computing. In
fact, computing is the only time I don't have to wear my thumb brace. And I
use the same Logitech Marble Man previously mentioned.
In Feb or Mar, I went to ortho because of problems with my thumb. Xrays
showed I have a bone spur in addition to the arthritis. Bottom line of that
visit was "your thumb will let you know when it's time to remove the spur".
Well, I did something while I was in Salt Lake that really exacerbated the
problem so I had Dr appt yesterday. But it looks like I won't have to have
surgery on my thumb, and least not right away. Yesterday's xrays showed that
the arthritis has definitely degenerated since the Feb/Mar xrays, but before
considering surgery he wants to try cortisone treatment. Got first shot
while I was there. Of course the first 24 hours of that hurts like blazes so
it's too soon to tell if it will help. I'm just so glad that the problems
don't affect keyboarding/mousing, only everything else. Basically, my
arthritis takes the form of degenerative joints (it's not rheumatoid). The
bone spur is making it worse. However, surgery would be one of two things
(besides grinding the bone spur) - fusing, or taking some tendon from
someplace and putting it in to replace the cartilage. Since I keloid very
easy, that has to be considered as well. So I hope the cortisone works.
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Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
"Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
kathryn at bassett.net
http://bassett.net
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