The specialist also
suggested that maybe I find a couple of positions for the machine that
don't hurt to much, instead of just one, and switch between them, maybe
one in the morning and the other at night, so my body doesn't have a
chance to start hurting in the same position. It's an interesting idea,
but I haven't really tried it yet. She said I could even switch between
the IE and the LS. The LS was so painful to write on, though, I don't
even want to try it again.
Supposedly Stenovations
is coming out with a QWERTY keyboard that's touch like the LS. That will
be really cool. I am interested in one of those to make regular typing
less painful. They're coming out with a new more ergonomic/more
sensitive LS, too. I'd love to get one, but I think the IE's going to be
a better bet for me until they can put the LS on split pods like the IE
is.
I
certainly didn't get the answers I was hoping for out of the ergonomic
specialist visit (and "maybe you just can't be a captioner" is the one I
liked the least), but I did get inspired to try a few things. It's
always good to get someone else's perspective.
I
was really hoping I could tell her, "my hand feels kinked, I have to do
this a lot" or, "look, I have to bend my hand weird here" and she would
tell me what to do to fix it. Or I was hoping she would say, "try your
machine lower, try tilting it this way," etc. But she recognized that I
had pretty much already tried everything, and basically she just went
with "if you tried it already and it isn't comfortable, don't do it."
She
did say she wished she had some better answers for me. She said it
looked like my posture was good already, with everything lined up just
right. It's frustrating to hear that you're doing everything right and
it still hurts, because then there's no solution.
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