Today I discovered something very very cool. Dragon dictation is an app on the iPhone . I’m trying it today in this blog for the first time. It’s understanding everything I say perfectly. It’s punctuating sentences perfectly . I just find it hard to be able to speak my thoughts out loud rather than write them. I feel like I’m suddenly outside of my head. This is an awesome communication device, especially for the arthritis in my thumb. Thumbs weren’t meant to be bent over keyboards on phones. The pain in my right thumb grew increasingly worse over this past year. I got a stylus and have been using that for a couple of weeks and while that has been a little cumbersome, I quickly learned to use it and it really did help alleviate the pain in my right thumb. But this Dragon speaking software is amazing. All I have to do is talk. It understands me and I can cut and paste and a keyboard pops up when I need it.
The only problem is speaking out loud. It’s really strange to try to organize my thoughts sitting here in my living room, staring at the wall and talking. Somehow writing with my hand helps me feel that I’m inside my head and “connected”. Speaking out loud keeps me outside my head and things don’t feel as organized as well as they do when I’m using my hand to write. But I see this as a positive thing. It’s been said that we should keep our brains functioning and stretching and growing in different ways all the time, so I’m definitely going to keep using the dragon software. What a fun way to keep from going brain dead!
Who would’ve thought in the fourth day of my shedding process that it would be my thumb that I would be shedding to use to write on a keyboard, and instead I would be using my voice. There’s something to be said for letting go of old ways. Technology certainly has come a long way and influenced and enhanced my life.
And so, as another day goes by, the Dragon speaks, and…I have written.
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