POST OP 2

an interesting thing is happening. if i write in all lower case it doesn't take me anywhere near as long to type a simple message as it was just yesterday, though i still have to back up an correct alot.

but as a young writer, working on the portable typewriter the police chiefs wife gave me for graduating high school i always wrote in lower case and skipped the contractions as well (you they're automatic) [i meant to write now they're automatic not you but thought i'd leave that mistake in because it's interestingly not about mistyping, which i've been backing up correcting constantly as i go.

phew. this is difficult. much easier if i just use my left hand, well finger actually, (though even leftie, it took me eight attempts to figure out how to write "acutally") [woops] since i taught myself how to those many years ago and ever since to type two-fingered.

Not to worry though. i'm progressing and these are just motor skills that will bounce back.


{P.S. post: I am writing this for my dad to say that he can speak normally and can read The New Yorker out loud but interestingly, is having great difficulty reading it to himself. Typing is the hardest. He finds all of this fascinating!}