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December 2004 My hands hurt. They ache when I move them, use them, or look at them. I don’t feel like typing today. Well it certainly was nice to get away for a bit. Emily and I went on vacation last week – a cruise to the Caribbean – which was a week of nothingness. Well, I should say a week of doing nothing but eating. Relatively speaking I have been feeling pretty good. I definitely feel differently after not working out for a whole week. My body is getting softer and softer. In another two weeks I can be the spokesman for Charmin toilet paper…I’ll be as soft, big and hairy as their last spokesman: a bear. And now it’s time to enjoy the holiday season and drink lots of hot chocolate. Even if the Caribbean is beautiful and the sun shines bright – there’s nothing like December in New York. This will probably be my last entry for 2005. Hard to believe another year has gone by. Fitting, too, that last night I had one of the worst back aches I could remember having in a long, long time. The kind of back ache that made me wonder why I was in so much pain, what I did wrong that day, and if there was anything – anything at all – I could do to help it. The best I could surmise I had pulled a muscle at the gym, but I am very careful when I work out. I never overwork myself (which if you ask anyone who knows me, couldn’t be closer to the truth). And yet last night I sat at my kitchen table and I wondered why I was in so much pain. I thought about what it would be like if it hurt like this all the time, and it made me thankful for mornings like today, which, luckily, are much much better. But when you have chronic pain or when you have a back ache that keeps you home on a fun night to go out, you wonder what you did to deserve it. And then all I could do is look to the next year. We all make our wishes, quietly, secretly, to ourselves – about what we really want in the coming year. It would do me no good to write mine here, as the things we wish for most we can’t even put into words. But with all that said, recovering spazzed out back and all, 2005 is going to be a good year. I can feel it in my achy, crappy bones. |
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| Author | Topic: Seth's Diary - December 2004 |
| CJ Feature Staff |
posted 12-07-2004 08:44 ET (US) 
This article is for responses to Seth's December 2004 entries to his diary. http://www.creakyjoints.com/sethsdiary/200412.shtml |
| Rozana |
posted 12-08-2004 17:08 ET (US)
hi seth, I can sympathise with you - my hands were like that last weekend. I thought that I had to go through the rest of my life having to type while in pain (or wait until i could get a secretary-prob 12 urs to go).However the disability office at my university provided me with voice recognition software which is really good and can even recognize medical words, etc. I have Via voice by IBM.(unfortunately there r probs with my computer now so i am having to type!!!) oh, there's another one called Dragon naturally speaking. hope this helps. |
| BluesFan77 |
posted 12-08-2004 23:31 ET (US)
It's odd you mention voice software...I just read this article last week. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/02/technology/circuits/02POGUE-EMAIL.html |
| carolinagirl |
posted 12-10-2004 16:08 ET (US)
Seth, pain in my hands was my first sign that something was wrong. Within a year, things exploded all over my body. Dragon Naturally Speaking is good, though I need to retrain it. Back in college, I occasionally had the good fortune to have a friend who was done with his or her studies,and typed as I dictated. Try soaking your hands in a paraffin bath. If nothing else, it feels really good. I hope you get some relief soon. Actually, I hope you wake up and have all of your pain gone for good! |
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