cstocks
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Since we are asking about missing members has anyone heard from Bird? His last post was on 8/30. Where're you at, Bird? Hope all is well with you...
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fishman
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Bird stopped in to visit me at the office for the first time two days ago.
<font color=orange> sidebar:
I now have Bird's toplink!</font color=orange>/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
Yes, the very same toplink that, once removed, generated such informative discussions on hydraulic top 'n tilt. Bird, generous man that he is, also threw in the 3-pt hitch link that was replaced as part of his "mods".
P.S. Bird, the check is on it's way./w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
Anyway, I hope Bird doesn't mind me repeating this, but he said he was having a little bit of trouble typing because of carpal tunnel problems. Could it be from the more than 8000 messages he's posted here in the last couple of years? I don't know, but here's hoping for a speedy recovery!
<font color=orange> sidebar:
I now have Bird's toplink!</font color=orange>/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
Yes, the very same toplink that, once removed, generated such informative discussions on hydraulic top 'n tilt. Bird, generous man that he is, also threw in the 3-pt hitch link that was replaced as part of his "mods".
P.S. Bird, the check is on it's way./w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
Anyway, I hope Bird doesn't mind me repeating this, but he said he was having a little bit of trouble typing because of carpal tunnel problems. Could it be from the more than 8000 messages he's posted here in the last couple of years? I don't know, but here's hoping for a speedy recovery!
DocHeb
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<font color=blue>Anyway, I hope Bird doesn't mind me repeating this, but he said he was having a little bit of trouble typing because of carpal tunnel problems. </font color=blue>
It requires a later generation computer, but the new voice recognition technologies such as Via-Voice and Dragon Dictate are supposed to be pretty good. Takes a lot of work out of typing. Another thing that helps carpal tunnel is to use the Microsoft Natural Keyboard, with the key banks set off at a more natural angle, decreasing the angulation of the wrist.
It requires a later generation computer, but the new voice recognition technologies such as Via-Voice and Dragon Dictate are supposed to be pretty good. Takes a lot of work out of typing. Another thing that helps carpal tunnel is to use the Microsoft Natural Keyboard, with the key banks set off at a more natural angle, decreasing the angulation of the wrist.
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I was also worried about Bird’s absence the last few weeks. Glad Fishman has seen him and things are mostly well.
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wroughtn_harv
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<font color=blue>Another thing that helps carpal tunnel is to use the Microsoft Natural Keyboard, with the key banks set off at a more natural angle, decreasing the angulation of the wrist. </font color=blue>
You pretty sharp on this carpal tunnel stuff?
The docs have said I need surgery on both hands.
I've declined.
Of course the first response from me to the docs was there were five things on this body no one was going to cut on with permission, hands were two, eyes another pair and......
But I would be interested in alternatives.
I've also been told I have a damaged rotator cup and I ain't volunteering for that surgery either.
It's probably wrong on my part. But I've done work for doctors. I've got to see what they're like when they're left to their own vices. I've had to fix what they've broken. Which has left me doubting they can fix what I've broken./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
You pretty sharp on this carpal tunnel stuff?
The docs have said I need surgery on both hands.
I've declined.
Of course the first response from me to the docs was there were five things on this body no one was going to cut on with permission, hands were two, eyes another pair and......
But I would be interested in alternatives.
I've also been told I have a damaged rotator cup and I ain't volunteering for that surgery either.
It's probably wrong on my part. But I've done work for doctors. I've got to see what they're like when they're left to their own vices. I've had to fix what they've broken. Which has left me doubting they can fix what I've broken./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Chuck52
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<font color=blue>It's probably wrong on my part. But I've done work for doctors. I've got to see what they're like when they're left to their own vices. I've had to fix what they've broken. Which has left me doubting they can fix what I've broken. </font color=blue>
I know where you're coming from there Harv. I've taught too many of them, and now I listen to my wife's stories about them. Used to help if they were older than me, but that's getting kinda iffy too now.
Chuck
I know where you're coming from there Harv. I've taught too many of them, and now I listen to my wife's stories about them. Used to help if they were older than me, but that's getting kinda iffy too now.
Chuck
Bird
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Thanks for the interest and good wishes, all of you. I used to read all the messages posted, and probably responded (or just started something on my own/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif) far too often. So, yes, I'm still around; just not doing as much on this keyboard anymore, and haven't even been reading many of the messages; just a few.
Fishman, the check arrived promptly yesterday./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
Wroughtn Harv, you might like my doctor better than most. He is a surgeon (hand and arm specialist), and he did the surgery on my hands 5 years ago, as well as having done the surgery on one of my mother's hands and both of my youngest daughter's hands. However, he says he considers surgery to be a last resort, so he'll take time to tell you about all the alternatives he knows of, let you decide which way to go, but recommends the least intrusive measures be tried first.
Of course if you ever get to the point that I reached 5 years ago, you'll want the surgery and be glad to get it. When he does one hand, he likes to wait 3 months to see how that does before doing the other one, but I told him to heck with that, I wanted the pain stopped, so I insisted he do the second hand one month after he did the first one. (He had prescribed some pain pills to take after the first surgery and I told him I didn't need them for the hand he cut on, but sure needed them for the other hand.) I sure didn't want to go another two months of sleeping no more than 10 minutes at a time sitting up in a chair./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
So, if your hands ever get bad enough to need surgery, send me a private message and I'll give you his name and address (in the Wadley Tower by Baylor Hospital).
Fishman, the check arrived promptly yesterday./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
Wroughtn Harv, you might like my doctor better than most. He is a surgeon (hand and arm specialist), and he did the surgery on my hands 5 years ago, as well as having done the surgery on one of my mother's hands and both of my youngest daughter's hands. However, he says he considers surgery to be a last resort, so he'll take time to tell you about all the alternatives he knows of, let you decide which way to go, but recommends the least intrusive measures be tried first.
Of course if you ever get to the point that I reached 5 years ago, you'll want the surgery and be glad to get it. When he does one hand, he likes to wait 3 months to see how that does before doing the other one, but I told him to heck with that, I wanted the pain stopped, so I insisted he do the second hand one month after he did the first one. (He had prescribed some pain pills to take after the first surgery and I told him I didn't need them for the hand he cut on, but sure needed them for the other hand.) I sure didn't want to go another two months of sleeping no more than 10 minutes at a time sitting up in a chair./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
So, if your hands ever get bad enough to need surgery, send me a private message and I'll give you his name and address (in the Wadley Tower by Baylor Hospital).
Hi Bird,
Good to hear from you again. You said you had the surgery done on both hands five years ago. But am I to understand they are bothering you again? I thought the surgery gave a more permanent fix than that. A friend of mine had both hands done a couple of years ago. Like you, he did not want to wait three months in between hands and had them done about a month apart. He was out from work for at least three months and when he came back he said the relief from pain was worth the short term misery. This fellow is only in his thirties and unless he was pulling my leg his hands were messed up from fishing too much! He is a fishing fool so I guess maybe he was telling the truth.
Anyway, I'm glad to know you are doing okay. I hope your hands don't require surgery again.
Good to hear from you again. You said you had the surgery done on both hands five years ago. But am I to understand they are bothering you again? I thought the surgery gave a more permanent fix than that. A friend of mine had both hands done a couple of years ago. Like you, he did not want to wait three months in between hands and had them done about a month apart. He was out from work for at least three months and when he came back he said the relief from pain was worth the short term misery. This fellow is only in his thirties and unless he was pulling my leg his hands were messed up from fishing too much! He is a fishing fool so I guess maybe he was telling the truth.
Anyway, I'm glad to know you are doing okay. I hope your hands don't require surgery again.
