Very sorry to hear you were in an accident, I hope your recovery is surprisingly fast and complete. You will be missed on here, please loudly announce your return so we can all cheer :-) We'll all be thinking of you and sending you positive vibes :-)
I spent two months in a hospital years ago, and I found tinkering with electronics there to be an effective therapeutic. So, if possible, find some things that can occasionally get your mind off your situation. Just remember that healing is as much a mental process as a physical one, so be sure to keep tabs on your inner condition, too.
Wishing you a speedy recovery and hope to see you here again soon.
I want you to know you have my prayers also. FWIW whenever I heard of natural disasters around the world I knew forum members in that country. I hoped they were OK. Like so many others I will have a bad case of the blues until I learn of your progress. Best wishes.
Wow, Thank you all for the support. I had no idea~
Honestly I had no idea I posted this. I have been heavily drugged since the accident and still a bit foggy on what all took place.
I will state that I am healing, yet the pain at times is unbearable. Long story short I went to Seattle for a quick weekend getaway with some girlfriends. While driving home we had an accident where I suffered head trauma and severed some tendons in my arm. I had to have an operation to re-attach the tendons and am now in rehab / recovery mode. I am more concerned with the head injury, but the doctor thinks I should recover fully. In fact I have began programming again but its slow going, my boss said I need to get back to work, but only a few hours here and there. Popping pain pills and prop programming is not as bad a combination as one might imagine, okay that was a bad joke but this had to be the worst timing to say the least.
Truly thanks for the support and if I say something stupid please give me a nudge so that I can get back on track. Love you all. (one hand typing for a bit, no pun intended)
Seattle. What a horrible way to have to leave such a wonderful city. I am assuming you were taken to Harbor View???? I hope they took as good of care of you as they did my daughter several years ago. Their ER is nothing to brag about, but once you are admitted the nursing staff is pretty awesome. Get well soon and do not worry about any odd comments. I think everyone understands!!!
Still on the pills and trying to figure out if I need to hire someone to type for me. One handed typing sucks and my boss wont let me use this as an excuse. Could you imagine hiring someone just to type code. Lol might be a good idea at first.
Perhaps your boss is like the training partner who pushes you to lift that weight another time when you would rather quit. If that's the case then we applaud your boss.
Still on the pills and trying to figure out if I need to hire someone to type for me. One handed typing sucks and my boss wont let me use this as an excuse. Could you imagine hiring someone just to type code. Lol might be a good idea at first.
You can buy a one handed keyboard. Here is my favorite example, although there are many others:
I used to work with a one armed programmer. He got along just fine with a regular keyboard. His only difficulty involved CTRL-ALT-DELETE. At which point his nose came to the rescue.
Still on the pills and trying to figure out if I need to hire someone to type for me. One handed typing sucks and my boss wont let me use this as an excuse. Could you imagine hiring someone just to type code. Lol might be a good idea at first.
Seems that back in the late '70s or early eighties one of the computer mags had a project to do just that, and it was called oddly enough "the one hander"
I'm getting ideas for a BS2-plywood-relay based abominable autoscribe (obscure reference to "A Canticle for Liebowitz") which does painfully slow dictation. Voice recognition hears individual letters N-O-W-space-I-S-space-T-H-E-space-T-I-M-E-space-F-O-R-space-A-L-L-space-G-O-O-D-space-M-E-N-... and outputs them (mistakes and all) into a Word doc. One step lower efficiency than my speaking terminal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhhDEhzF3PM .
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I am very sorry to hear that you have problems. I wish you the very best and a speedy recovery.
Bruce
Dave
Wishing you a speedy recovery and hope to see you here again soon.
Please get well some.
I hope people bring you a lot of reading material. It's a good time to absorb.
Jim
-MattG
xbee.str(string("Get Well Soon!"))Honestly I had no idea I posted this. I have been heavily drugged since the accident and still a bit foggy on what all took place.
I will state that I am healing, yet the pain at times is unbearable. Long story short I went to Seattle for a quick weekend getaway with some girlfriends. While driving home we had an accident where I suffered head trauma and severed some tendons in my arm. I had to have an operation to re-attach the tendons and am now in rehab / recovery mode. I am more concerned with the head injury, but the doctor thinks I should recover fully. In fact I have began programming again but its slow going, my boss said I need to get back to work, but only a few hours here and there. Popping pain pills and prop programming is not as bad a combination as one might imagine, okay that was a bad joke but this had to be the worst timing to say the least.
Truly thanks for the support and if I say something stupid please give me a nudge so that I can get back on track. Love you all. (one hand typing for a bit, no pun intended)
Don't worry if you say something stupid, I would say we have _all_ said something dumb here from time to time (myself more than once)
Get better soon
Massimo
Still on the pills and trying to figure out if I need to hire someone to type for me. One handed typing sucks and my boss wont let me use this as an excuse. Could you imagine hiring someone just to type code. Lol might be a good idea at first.
http://www.nuance.com/dragon/index.htm
You can buy a one handed keyboard. Here is my favorite example, although there are many others:
http://www.onehandedkeyboard.com/maltron.html
Apparently, police officers and others who must type while driving use one handed keyboards (right handed, presumably...).
Seems that back in the late '70s or early eighties one of the computer mags had a project to do just that, and it was called oddly enough "the one hander"
Keep smilin'
FF
I'm getting ideas for a BS2-plywood-relay based abominable autoscribe (obscure reference to "A Canticle for Liebowitz") which does painfully slow dictation. Voice recognition hears individual letters N-O-W-space-I-S-space-T-H-E-space-T-I-M-E-space-F-O-R-space-A-L-L-space-G-O-O-D-space-M-E-N-... and outputs them (mistakes and all) into a Word doc. One step lower efficiency than my speaking terminal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhhDEhzF3PM .
Amanda
Thank you, everyone.
Bits.