Greetings All! I need some assistance from my esteemed ProFox colleagues. About 3 weeks ago I managed to pinch a nerve quite badly while running some cable. After a week of severe pain & numbness I finally gutted out and went to see my primary care physician. He concluded I indeed had a pinched nerve, and confirmed my father's long distance diagnosis re: the problem coming from C-6 (my father is a retired physician). He ordered x-Rays (and prescribed some interesting pain killers <g>). One week later I visited the doc and saw the x-Ray results. Not good, but could be far worse. I have several spurs and the start of arthritis & deterioration in several vertebrae in my neck, several discs that are pretty flattened out, and the prognosis is not good. It is not reversible, the neck vertebrae will get worse with time, surgery is not yet a viable option, but the pain ought to be lessened over time until I do something silly and pinch a nerve yet again. My father predicted this would happen 25 years ago after a lady ran a red light in Redlands, CA, and broadsided me pretty good (bad). He told me that between age 50 & 60 I would have neck problems, and spur growth due to the accident. He sure nailed that prophecy! Luckily I took out one hell of a strong (and very expensive) disability policy about 15 years ago in case he was right.
So, until this past Monday I have been in tremendous nerve pain, and pretty much relegated to providing clients with phone support, and minimal work on keyboard entry due to the severe pain and constant numbness in my left arm and hand. This week the pain has not been as bad, but the perpetual numbness in the left hand drives me nuts, and still makes keyboard work challenging. You would not believe the typos! Thank goodness for spell check. I guess my days of pulling cable, pulling PCs apart, romping all over the place to visit clients, installing network equipment, etc., are pretty much over. And my coding days in terms of hours per day will likely be limited as well. I am sure glad my commercial VFP apps are stable, and for my past decision to use a recurring license billing structure for my business! Anyway, I have never been a raving fan of Speech-To-Text programs due to some very poor results in years past despite claims of "up to" 98% accuracy. But I am likely going to need to move in that direction. I have come across fairly recent reviews, and it seems Nuance's Dragon Speaking Naturally v-9 may be worth the investment. But I do not know how well it may work in a Fox coding environment. I invite any and all comments re: other Speech-To-Text software my fellow FoxHeads may have used for Word, Outlook and even Fox coding. I thank you for your anticipated input, which I am certain will provide some powerful insights as in all other matters we manage to go over as a group. Regards, Gil Gilbert M. Hale New Freedom Data Resources Pittsford, NY 585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular) 585-202-4341 - Cellular/VoiceMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/mixed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/ms-tnef --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
