Klarinet Archive - Posting 000246.txt from 2005/11

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Compassion
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:38:04 -0500

Audry,

I have been there! Fell off my bicycle in about 1994 and broke my right
wrist. Due to poor diagnosis I ultimately had to have an operation to
re-break it and was in an external fixator for what seemed like months -
may have been months - I tend to repress the memory. Hurt like h**l for a
while. Obviously no playing during that period, but when the fixator came
off, there was no significant problem resuming playing. So keep a stiff
upper lip.

But typing was a real problem! Back then, speech recognition programs were
crude and expensive, but they have improved a lot since then. A few years
ago I obtained one of the Dragon programs "Naturally Speaking" and it
really does work, although I have not made much use of it, not having
broken my wrist again. If you need to do much typing, you might look into it.

But there is nothing I know of that would finger your clarinet for you!

George

At 09:20 PM 11/10/2005, you wrote:
>perhaps you would have the compassion to send me kind wishes. i broke my
>wrist on sunday, learning to ice skate. pain has been excruciating, and
>my biggest fear is that i won't be able to play when the cast comes
>off.... i know i'm not using caps - can't. hop i didn't make any
>spelling mistakes.
>
>cheers
>
>audrey
>
>
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