Category: life
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one year of arm stuff – part 3 – what the heck is a radial nerve?
The radial nerve runs from your shoulder down to your fingers along the outside of your upper arm and the top of your lower arm, about where you might get a sunburn or where you would draw body hair on a cartoon character. It powers a lot of muscles related to extension – straightining (and…
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one year of arm stuff – part 2 – for those who want to know how i got here
back in 2016/2017 I noticed some weakness in my right index finger – it wouldn’t extend (straighten) as far as my other fingers. At the time I was about eight years recovered from some serious RSI in both wrists that had affected my range of motion, and I assumed this was the same or similar…
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one year of arm stuff – part 1 – a quick summary for those who aren’t in the know, if you’re interested:
They found an almond-sized growth on my radial nerve above my elbow in my right (dominant) arm, and in october 2023 they removed it and grafted in a sensory nerve they took from my right calf. I have been slowly regrowing my radial nerve since then. The growth has turned out to be a benign…
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one year of arm stuff – table of contents
It’s been a year now since my nerve graft, and I thought I would like to write up some thoughts on recovery so far, but as soon as I started, I pumped out 5000 words, and I realized this would not be a single post by any means. SO I’m writing them as a series,…
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arm updates and a couple paintings
(crossposted from my tumblr) some left-handed gouache studies from the past week, after taking a couple months off thanks to the arm surgery and a deep fear that being bad at it would take all the fun out of it for me. painted on 12×16 paper, so I can get less mad about my wobbly…
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Dragon Naturally Speaking
So I caved and bought Dragon naturally speaking professional 16. It’s the most supported and most recommended dictation software; and it’s been around for decades. So, I naïvely thought that it would be a straightforward and professional experience purchasing installing and setting up the software but no, absolutely not, it’s incredibly infuriating to deal with…
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practicing writing and drawing with my awful terrible no good left hand moodboard
i’m gonna relearn how to enjoy this if it kills me.
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help
Hey cohost I could use some help or some referrals to people who might actually be able to help or even like a really helpful YouTube video So I’m down to one hand for typing and mousing and everything which as you might expect is making me twitchy with frustration, just constant ongoing frustration I’ve…
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some arm news
So, some news: tomorrow I’m having surgery on my right arm – my dominant arm – my drawing arm, my writing arm, my brushing-my-teeth and typing-in-chat and unlocking-my-door arm – and will lose most use of it for years, and an unknown (but hopefully less dire) amount of use of it forever. As you might…
