Onward and Surgery
28 February 2019 09:13![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nym_wibblyI'm still in the process of surfacing from the major crash. Feeling much better, but still not getting anything done.
I seem to have cleared the final hurdle for mastectomy surgery, and just got a date for my pre-op assessment in mid-March. Still no date for the surgery, but that's in process. I won't hold my breath. It's meant to be within six weeks of the pre-op assessment so that those results are still, you know, relevant, but I waited about four months for my gallbladder date (and that only came up as a last minute cancellation).
I'd better spend the next few weeks doing things that I won't be able to do for a while after the surgery, like stocking up with heavy shopping and getting my desperate pigsty of a bedroom tidy enough to spend actual time in while I recover in comfort with a lot of pillows.
I'm planning to try out voice-recognition software for writing and other computer tasks during my recovery. It's been about ten years since I seriously tried any and I'm sure it must have improved. Speaking aloud to other people for any length of time tires me enormously, and articulating words becomes harder and harder the more tired I get, but if the software can adapt to my slurring, I may be able to use it to write dodgy drafts, at least.
My inboxes are still overflowing. I think I've answered everything urgent, but I'm unlikely to get to anything else for a few more days. Sorry, folks!
I'll probably create a Dreamwidth filter for further posts about my surgery, since I'd like to be able to talk about it without worrying about freaking someone out. If you want to read those posts (or if you really, totally, definitely don't want to be included in that filter, argh!), let me know. It's likely to include photos of my breasts and then my lack of breasts, but they'd always be behind a cut, or maybe an external link. The mastectomy surgery scarring/stitching isn't particularly gory, but it is a bit of a shock if you've never seen an absence of breast before.
I seem to have cleared the final hurdle for mastectomy surgery, and just got a date for my pre-op assessment in mid-March. Still no date for the surgery, but that's in process. I won't hold my breath. It's meant to be within six weeks of the pre-op assessment so that those results are still, you know, relevant, but I waited about four months for my gallbladder date (and that only came up as a last minute cancellation).
I'd better spend the next few weeks doing things that I won't be able to do for a while after the surgery, like stocking up with heavy shopping and getting my desperate pigsty of a bedroom tidy enough to spend actual time in while I recover in comfort with a lot of pillows.
I'm planning to try out voice-recognition software for writing and other computer tasks during my recovery. It's been about ten years since I seriously tried any and I'm sure it must have improved. Speaking aloud to other people for any length of time tires me enormously, and articulating words becomes harder and harder the more tired I get, but if the software can adapt to my slurring, I may be able to use it to write dodgy drafts, at least.
My inboxes are still overflowing. I think I've answered everything urgent, but I'm unlikely to get to anything else for a few more days. Sorry, folks!
I'll probably create a Dreamwidth filter for further posts about my surgery, since I'd like to be able to talk about it without worrying about freaking someone out. If you want to read those posts (or if you really, totally, definitely don't want to be included in that filter, argh!), let me know. It's likely to include photos of my breasts and then my lack of breasts, but they'd always be behind a cut, or maybe an external link. The mastectomy surgery scarring/stitching isn't particularly gory, but it is a bit of a shock if you've never seen an absence of breast before.
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Date: 28 Feb 2019 11:43 (UTC)Using Google Assistant's internet-powered speech recognition has actually been...pretty decent. It successfully parses names and odd turns of phrase, and updates its predictions as you complete the context of a sentence. No idea if it has a desktop/word processing client version, but the technology has come a long way.