I'm going to bite the bullet today and order Dragon Speech to Text software and a really good microphone today. My wife's joke that I'm either going to be a busy paperhanger or a slot machine for about a month was the deciding factor.
For those of you who don't get the joke, because you're not from our culture - busier than a one-armed paperhanger, and another term for slot machine is one-armed bandit. (And for those of you who are too young to know what a paperhanger is - that's someone who puts wallpaper up for a living. In this era of home decorating shows, go figure out what wallpaper is on your own.)
The original surgeon passed the buck to another surgeon, whom I met yesterday. Of course I have cubital tunnel (that's in the elbow) - I knew that. Apparently, I also have some bone impinging upon that tunnel, so he'll do the cubital tunnel release and shave some bone off. No big deal. As the ad people say, but wait, there's more! I also need a carpal tunnel release, too. Mind you, I've had both wrists done years ago ... decades ago (damn, I'm getting old) ... but apparently it's ALSO messing the nerve up, too.
Yay, me? Anyway, waiting on insurance pre-authorizations, and then I'll get sliced and fixed. But that means it's speaking software time now. Enjoy your summer (winter for those on the opposite side of the globe).