Klarinet Archive - Posting 000250.txt from 2005/11

From: Audrey Travis <clr91nt@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Compassion
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:05:42 -0500

thanks for your encouragement, george.

audrey
On 11-Nov-05, at 6:32 AM, George Kidder wrote:

> 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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