Try leaning back in your chair and typing with your keyboard in your lap. I had terrible neck sm

• Not used to working 40+ hours and my back is - breaking. Any helpful hints? nm
  • Try moving your monitor up or down, too. sm - mlstoo
  • My PT recommended changing the height sm - CL
  • Try leaning back in your chair and typing with your keyboard in your lap. I had terrible neck sm - vtmt
    • Same here. Lap is definitely the best position - for this old dog!! NM
  • Walking 30 minutes per day sm - mlstoo

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For longtime comfort which is best - split keyboard mounted on chair arms or split keyboard to be used on the desk?

Also, why the preference over split keyboards that come totally apart versus split keyboards that are permanently connected at the top?

I want to revamp my office and there are so many different options.

To those of you who type with your keyboard in your lap, are you just placing the keyboard on the pillow or using something on top of the pillow?  Also, what are you doing in regard to your mouse?  My wrists are fine, so far, but I am having severe right neck/shoulder pain and tingling, probably from mousing.  I'm using an ergonomic keyboard and like them, but am looking to replace my Belkin split with another keyboard.

Is anyone typing from a reclining position?  I've heard talk of this and am wondering how you would operate the foot pedal in this position?

Thanks for any advice.  I've already garnered a lot of information by just reading through old posts - it's fabulous that we have the opportunity to share with each other.

JudithD

a Grey, but they are more expensive and will have it for a long time, so want to make the right choice. 

I've wanted one for a long time, but felt we didn't have the time to spend with it.  I'm now working from home and my husband is home most of the time also, so now seems like a good time.

Thanks for the input.

Plan B.  I have already jotted down some questions I need to ask her to get a better idea of what she needs first and then fax or email the proposal to her. 

Thanks!

   Medical bills are debt.  Debt is big business.   Do not expect to find any compassion for your problems when you show up without insurance.  You'll be lucky just to get care when they flag your chart "No Insurance" or "Self Pay."

    If you are uninsured and do not qualify for state or federal assistance because earnings are too high, you are gambling on everything you own or will own in the future, including future earnings.

     If you require elective medical care and have time to work out a cash payment deal in writing with the provider, you may be protected. You will require a signed agreement by every provider - hospital, radiology, lab, interpreting physicians, etc.  If you fail to meet the provisions of the agreements you sign, the following will apply to this debt as well. 

   If you receive medical care without a prior agreement on payment, you will be responsible for the debt.  After the fact, the providers have no legal reason to allow you to set up a payment plan.    If you send a monthly payment anyway without a prior agreement, the only thing you can hope for is when they take you to court a sympathetic judge or arbitrator takes this into account.  A voluntary payment sent by you won't stop any legal action and, in fact, may hurt you in the future trying to resolve the debt.

   Every state has a set amount of time before a creditor can sue you (depending on the type of debt).  For most states, medical debt is 2 years.  So, from the date of service you have 2 years of collection agencies to deal with and then they simply take you to court at which point they will take everything you own and sell it at auction, enforce liens against your current and future earnings, and take every potential bit of future income or asset you may have.There has been some legal challenge to this in some states - check with your state attorney general's office to see if any headway has been made in protecting patients with medical debt.

     If you think you'll just go bankrupt, think again.  Medical debt is rarely discharged now since the rules have changed, especially if you at some point indicated you would be willing to do a payment plan with the providers - this is used against you.

      If you think you can maintain your health and nothing will happen, you are dreaming.  Make sure off the top that you no longer have a GB, appendix or uterus.  You'll just have to ride out all the little things - UTI, flu, sinusitis, and forget about routine maintenance care.  The stress alone of knowing you must not become ill or injured is enough to make you sick.

      Anyone who tells you not to worry about medical debt while uninsured or underinsured is either ignorant of the facts, living in another dimension, or just plain lying.

Think about it. The possibilities are endless when you learn to be "without hands" doing this job.

If it is lunchtime, cutting a sandwich into 6 individual pieces and stabbing each piece with a toothpick works very well as you only have to do one bite at a time and your keyboard doesn't get nasty from touching the bread.

For dessert, don't buy Reeses peanut butter cups. The "Popable" Reeses fit nicely into a small cup that you can toss a mouthful from whenever the urge hits you.

I don't recommend anything that you actually have to pick up with your fingers, i.e., Cheese Doodles, Doritos, salt and vinegar chips, etc., as the keyboard gets really icky and you lose time that way or you have to wipe the residue on your pants or a leftover coffee filter.

I've also found that a straw works well with coffee once it has cooled down to tepid, as it usually does before you expect it.

What do you do for a stiff neck from working at the computer too long?  Mine is killing me today.

My neck is killing me, I guess from staying in the same position for hours. I am starting to feel a knot in my neck!

Thanks.

If I were the parents, I would most likely be blaming myself; not my friends that I left my 2 year old with and not the person who hit the child on the highway!  It would have been my responsbility to either have my 2 year old with me or at least make sure the people I left him with were responsible.  As for the driver of that car, what were the driving conditions; apparently it was at night; was it raining; was it foggy; did they even see that little,tiny child; was the child standing or crawling or just lying on the road????????  It sounds horrible but maybe the driver just felt a bump!  Maybe the driver didn't even realize he had hit a child!  Maybe the driver just thought he ran over a board in the road.  I'm one of the few, I guess, who believes the safety of your child lies only within your power.  According to some, accidents do happen, but I don't believe in accidents!  Accidents, according to the dictionary, are considered to be unforseen incidents.....we as parents, however, must use common sense to try to abate these "unforseen incidents". 

Again, I do have greath empathy for the parents, their friends and for the driver of that car.  They certainly did not preplan this but maybe a little bit of preplanning would have prevented it.  I am sure that little 2 year old will be another beautiful angel in Heaven and that eventually his parents will know he is happy and in a good place. 

I wonder if the accounts are seeing a reduction in the price that they are being charged -- that is what I want to know.   Went through this when NFTA came into effect with my husband and truck drivers.  Also the car industry has gone through this with all the jobs going overseas.   Pretty soon the doctors won't have any patients because no one will have insurance or jobs or be able to pay so they will be out of a job.   I hope it eventually all backfires on them but I doubt it.  I have talked to my local doctors, senators, anyone that will listen about this but no one seems to be worried.  Tax bases will go to pot with everyone out of work, no one to pay the government.    All we can do is to keep voicing our opinions.