| hi Laura and welcome! Hopefully a couple of the other members will chime in, but just to let you know a little bit about us... we are a fairly quiet group. For myself, I'm unable to type and therefore use dictation software. Part of my ongoing health issues that I continue to work through is difficulty speaking. It is often painful for me, therefore I'm not able to dictate nearly as much as I would like to. I've been coming off the roughest six months of this problem (which I've had since the mid-90s) and am currently working on a couple of writing projects where I need to devote all of my writing/dictation time. In a few weeks, hopefully I'll get these current project finished and can touch base with you again, but I don't ever do IM because my speech is too limited. Hope you understand and that you can get some other good feedback and support here. Take the time to read the old messages. Several of us have posted some suggestions. I've also dealt with costochondritis and would like to wholeheartedly recommend the information you can find at the website: http://www.askwaltstollmd.com/ (I promise, there's enough to keep you busy here for weeks and weeks! especially if you check out the bulletin board & archives. I've learned a tremendous amount from him over the past few years.) This is considered a significant amount of talking for me, so if you don't hear from me again for a while, please know I'm not ignoring you, simply applying myself to get this current writing project finished. Thanks! Larissa --- On Thu, 2/5/09, Laura <poeticart169@...> wrote: From: Laura <poeticart169@...> |