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06/15/2007: "I will take back what ALS thinks it has taken from me!"

The strength in my hands and legs are much weaker today. I am having a hard time typing. I use an on-screen keyboard and my mouse which I hold with both hands on a lap tray and kind of move with my legs. I know it sounds strange but it has been working OK until now. Losing the use of my hands will be torture! Damn you ALS! It is so hard to lose another ability with this disease. I have been blessed that the disease is progressing slowly in me and that my losses are slow in coming but it is still hard.

In my arsenal of products and gadgets to take back what ALS thinks it has taken from me, is a program called NaturalPoint. It uses infrared to track your head motion. You move your head to control the cursor. It also features DwellClicker, which is a time delay that clicks for me so I don’t have to click the mouse button, but I keep clicking it off! It takes patience to learn which I seem to be without or little of lately. I have a beta version of NaturalPoint and it is probably time to upgrade, as the features in the new one seem improved over my version.

I am also battling chronic sinusitis; my average is three bouts of it a year, this is my first for 2007. I’m on antibiotics and narcotics. Just kidding about the narcotics………Debbie