physical recovery period · 9:54pm Oct 12th, 2020
okay, so, i have not been in an accident or something like, it was relatively minor operation, and it has been in the works for a while, but i got a summons on a very short notice.
so right now i am typing and using the mouse with my left hand, and i am not super enthusiastic about stuff since my right wrist hurts quite a bit, so i will be brief.
i had a ganglion cyst, if i got the term right, on my right wrist. a fluid that separates the bones was leaking and forming little sacks which were annoying and a little sensitive, and now i've come back from a little bit of surgery, if that term applies, where the doctor cut open the back of my wrist down to the joint to make it form scar tissue and hopefully stop the leaking. one of the downsides of cutting this deep is that it is... put simply, kinda painful. even with anaesthetics it was unpleasant, and now that has worn off and i am stuck with painkillers, which is not really enough honestly.
this is day one of course, and hopefully it will get better soon, but from here it looks likely that i will not spend a lot of time typing. just this message is taking long enough. but since i like responding to comments and dont want people feeling ignored, i felt that i should explain why i will be kind of silent for a time.
stitches are scheduled to come out in two weeks, and i just hope i dont get an infection, the high risk of which is another downside of cutting into the joint. just managed to shower with my arm in a plastic bad. quite the adventure, and not in a fun way.
be back later and hopefully feeling better. talk to you all then.
Here's hoping for no infection. Everything else would be a fair price, assuming it works as intended. Best wishes!
Wishing you the best recovery and the least pain in times to come!
Question, have you ever heard of a trackball mouse? It's a sort of mouse where the mouse stays in one place and you direct the cursor by scrolling a ball with your thumb.
I'm bad at describing things, go look it up. Anyway, it sounds like you don't want to be moving your wrist, and this thingamajig is what I use.
Hope you feel better soon!
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All the trackball mice I've seen have the primary mouse button under your thumb, and you roll the ball with your fingers.
As for what they look like:
My understanding is that they're typically used in professional contexts because they lend themselves well to certain types of precision control that traditional-form gaming mice achieved using things like PTFE feet (no whole-hand weight pressing down on the part that has to move and amplifying the static friction)... and, of course, because, if you're mousing all day for a career, it avoids having to waggle your wrist around.
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This is the one I've been using for the past few years.
assets.logitech.com/assets/32954/4/logitech-wireless-trackball-m570.png
You pretty much just rest your hand on it and let your thumb do all the work. (aside from clicking on stuff.)
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Ahh, yeah. The non-ambidextrous descendants of the original Logitech Trackman Marble (Models T-CH11 and T-AH11). I'd forgotten about those.
EDIT: Also, I got nerd-sniped on the topic of the old one I had boxed up, so if anyone wants to use a trackball with two buttons and no wheel comfortably on Linux, I just blogged about the setup script I pulled together.
(Basically, getting a usable configuration of "emulate a wheel" and "emulate three buttons using two" and some tweaks like enabling both vertical and horizontal scrolling on the emulated wheel and tweaking the sensitivity so I can use scroll-wheel tab switching without physical detents.)
I'm using it now and it's surprisingly natural and convenient.
Get well soon, that's an order
I had one in my left wrist, but lucky me it went away...eventually
My best wishes for a swift recovery.
Alright, here's the latest: I no longer need to keep my hand raised all the time, most normal positions don't hurt (I'm still following doctor's orders and don't do more than very light lifting) and I can even type fairly well despite the bandages. It's a little sore, but that's nothing compared to outright painful like it was previous days. Hopefully the fact that it hurts less and less means that there's no infection, so I assume I'm keeping the bandages clean enough. Curious about what the stitches look like underneath the bandages, and I hope the itching don't get too bad. Only the fingers poke out of the bandages and using soap without getting anything wet is quite the challenge.
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Thank you. No long-term setbacks I hope
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Thank you
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It's actually getting a lot better. I managed to get to a progress-blocking bug in the Baldur's Gate 3 early access, twice, using my left hand. Still, we'll see how my wrist feels in the long term, so it could be worth keeping in mind. Really like my current Logitech-set though.
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Could still be something for me even if it's not for "gaming", since I mostly play turn based or semi-turn based games. I'd need to save up though.
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Hopefully it won't come back. Mine popped by itself and came back several times. This was before I had the surgery, but doc said it formed scar tissue which made it harder to pop, she had to take the extra-extra-sharp needle to empty it. It was almost kinda funny to see someone struggle to, in a sense, damage you with a sharp object.
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Thank you
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Hey that's great to hear! But make sure you take it easy, lots of folks have made their issues worse by rushing recovery at the last moment.