I learned something so cool this week! Something that will save me tons of money and make my life so much easier!
Many years ago I developed chronic pain when I use my hands - which made coming back to school pretty scary. Lucky for me, the school makes accommodations for people with disabilities. There is a section of the library where I can go and use a computer program that I can dictate my papers using a microphone, and it will type it for me. The drawback is that everyone around me can hear what I'm saying and I often feel super awkward. Especially when I am writing a paper for a class on marriages and families and I have to include personal information. NOT my favorite thing in the world. I have resisted buying the program for myself because it doesn't work on a tablet – it has to be a PC. I really don't want to PC, so I have been "making do" since January.
Many years ago I developed chronic pain when I use my hands - which made coming back to school pretty scary. Lucky for me, the school makes accommodations for people with disabilities. There is a section of the library where I can go and use a computer program that I can dictate my papers using a microphone, and it will type it for me. The drawback is that everyone around me can hear what I'm saying and I often feel super awkward. Especially when I am writing a paper for a class on marriages and families and I have to include personal information. NOT my favorite thing in the world. I have resisted buying the program for myself because it doesn't work on a tablet – it has to be a PC. I really don't want to PC, so I have been "making do" since January.
On one of my assignments this week, I decided to work on a Google Doc instead of Microsoft Word like I usually do. As I was looking around for a particular button, I saw a button called Voice Typing. With the other computer program, I use an expensive headset with a microphone. That night I just plugged in my earbuds and started talkimg. It worked! Now I can write papers at home, and whatever else I can think of to dictate.
I also have learned a bit about tenacity this week. I have a good friend that works at BYU and she has a lot of connections with healthcare professionals because her daughters have had a lot of health problems. I have gone to see some of the professional she has recommended, but so far none of them have worked. this is been going on for years and it's very discouraging. Treatments are all often quite painful and expensive, and after a time, I usually just suck it up and stop looking for a while. My friend will have none of that. She sets me up with one phone number after another.
She told me about how her young daughter was sick for 8 years and how she finally found the right doctor, got better and 6 months later was perfectly healthy. Her daughter wanted to quit after 2 years of searching, but her mother never gave up. It's really important for me to exhaust my resources because it is really important to me to have this handicap resolved so that I can support myself in a couple of years. My friend is friends with one of the apostles who also encouraged her to keep looking. On the flipside, my mother, Bless her heart, advised me years ago that I should just accept that I am going to hurt and that that is going to be my trial in life. Haha...moms. We try our best but don't always give the best advice. It is up to each one of us to be led by the Holy Ghost - not to take a poll on what everyone else thinks. It's our life, it's up to us to make the best of it.
She told me about how her young daughter was sick for 8 years and how she finally found the right doctor, got better and 6 months later was perfectly healthy. Her daughter wanted to quit after 2 years of searching, but her mother never gave up. It's really important for me to exhaust my resources because it is really important to me to have this handicap resolved so that I can support myself in a couple of years. My friend is friends with one of the apostles who also encouraged her to keep looking. On the flipside, my mother, Bless her heart, advised me years ago that I should just accept that I am going to hurt and that that is going to be my trial in life. Haha...moms. We try our best but don't always give the best advice. It is up to each one of us to be led by the Holy Ghost - not to take a poll on what everyone else thinks. It's our life, it's up to us to make the best of it.
I really appreciate your blog post this week. Your words about finding a doctor makes me think that I should try to find a doctor for my knees and left forearm. I played rugby for 5 years in High School and a little bit afterwards, and through that I developed a lot of pains in various parts of my body. I will admit that I believe that it was worth it, playing rugby was some of the best times in my life. I've never really searched for a doctor trying to fix anything, I just figured I would be this way for the rest of my life. Now I'm thinking that I should try to look for some help to make sure that I don't have these pains for the rest of my life.
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