What happens when an academic's biennial "curses, I'm doing too much writing and my right shoulder/wrist is developing tendonitis, lemme switch everything including mouse to left" meets her "wait, I cut ulnar nerve and tendons on my left hand last year" moment? Details at 11.
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I can write no problem because I touch type which is balanced. It's the mouse/trackpad/phone reading that's right-hand heavy. Trying to control a mouse that I can't feel well (see: severed ulnar nerve) with meh-functioning finger (severed/repaired/scarred tendons) is so weird!
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Brad DeLong 🖖 💉
When a whole hand was off limits for use, I found out that I can't write well unless I'm typing. But that's okay now because I can certainly type! So I can easily keep writing. It's the rest of the computer/phone stuff. Not too bad so far, just weird.https://twitter.com/delong/status/1374047265833185282 …
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I'm okay mostly because I recovered most of the function on my finger when I managed to get a *second* elective surgery right between COVID surges—surgery had a small window when it would work, and I just made it. So much elective surgery/screening must have been lost last year.
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you may want to consider POINTING WITH YOUR EYEShttp://interconnected.org/home/2021/03/12/pointer_control …
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Thanks. I'm pretty functional as it is. My right side just needs a bit of rest, that's all, and my left hand is clunky... But great to see more adaptive tech for folks.
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