From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 03/17/2016 10:28 AM, Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Thursday 17 Mar 2016 17:54, Bobbie Sellers conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >   
   >> On 03/17/2016 09:14 AM, Aragorn wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> The thing is that all of the above is not so easy for me to do.   
   >>> First of all, this "desk" is actually a two-plane CAD/CAM table, so I   
   >>> have to reach very far over to be able to attach the cables.   
   >>> Secondly and in combination with the above, I am currently afflicted   
   >>> with a very painful bilateral inguinal hernia again ─ I've already   
   >>> had surgery for that back in 1998, and the doctors told me that I   
   >>> could never get it again.  Well, duh, oopsie, I just did.   
   >>   
   >> You might need to rethink your workstation layout so that cables   
   >> et al are more easily accessible.   
   >   
   > Unfortunately, that is not an option at this point, for various reasons.   
   >   
   >>> Furthermore, I think I may also be developing cataracts.  Well, it's   
   >>> either that, or my blood pressure is simply messing with my eyes.   
   >>> But let's just say that my vision these days isn't anymore what it   
   >>> used to be.   
   >>   
   >> If you live long enough and do go outside that will happen.   
   >   
   > I don't go out all that often anymore these days.   
      
   	I go out every day I do not have to rest to recover from   
   the exertions of the previous day or the storms are not too bad   
   to walk around.   
   >   
   >> 12 years back I was told in another 20 years I would need cataract   
   >> surgery and I believe them.   
   >   
   > I've just checked the statistics, and it does indeed appear to be   
   > affecting more than half of the people at some point in life.  And I am   
   > currently at the age where it would indeed start manifesting itself.   
   > I'll be hitting 53 in about three weeks.   
      
   	Ah you are 25 years younger than myself. By the time I was 25   
   I had my first career behind me and was trying to make a living as   
   a nurse.   In the long run that did not work our and by the time I   
   40 my nursing career was history.  That is bi-polar in the age before   
   lithium became popular.   
      
   >   
   >> Did you do the post-operative exercises after your hernia surgeries?   
   >   
   > You mean back in 1998?  Because I have not had my surgery yet at this   
   > point.  I'm afraid my financial situation ─ I have to survive on a   
   > disabilities income which sits way below the official EU poverty barrier   
   > ─ does not allow for that yet, especially not with some huge bills   
   > coming up.   
   >   
   > The first time I had a bilateral inguinal hernia, and had surgery for   
   > it, the doctor actually told me _not_ to exercise at all, because it   
   > could cause damage to the healing tissue.  He even specifically told me   
   > not to ride a bicycle ─ not that I own one ─ for the next three to four   
   > weeks.   
      
   	Well that was just after surgery but when the surgery was   
   healed you should have started on light exercises for the abdomen.   
      
   >   
   >> You really have to try to strengthen the abdominal musculature.not for   
   >> a pretty 6 pack but to keep your guts where they belong but even body   
   >> builders get hernias from time to time.   
   >   
   > They probably do, because the way they build up their muscles isn't the   
   > natural way.   
      
   	No they forget to tighten the abdominal muscles when they pick   
   up something heavy, basically.   
      
   	Depending on the individual it as natural or more natural than   
   sitting at a keyboard watching a screen with dependent legs for many   
   hours per day.  But it uses a technique of resistance exercise that   
   has been understood since the Greeks started the Olympic celebrations.   
   	Remember the story of Milo of Crotona?   
   	It is observation of natural phenomena that led to modern day   
   training for whatever purpose.  People who do stuff get stronger.  If   
   the stuff they do only strengthens a small set of muscles they get out   
   of balance physically so everyone who can needs to exercise all the   
   parts of their bodies that they can.   
   	With reopened hernias you will have to wait.  With my   
   me/s.e.i.d. I can only do very light exercise.   Even my 10 inch   
   tablet is too heavy for me to carry all the time.  My load limit   
   is about 5 lbs these days.	`   
      
   >   
   > The hernias in my lower back are of course a very different thing.  I've   
   > recently seen a chiropractor for a number of sessions with regard to the   
   > muscles in my chest and shoulders, and after examining my back, he said   
   > he'd rather not touch those hernias with a ten foot pole.  It was /that/   
   > bad, he said.   
      
   	Herniated inter-vertebral disks are a surgical matter.   
   	I am surprised that you have to worry about paying for medical   
   care. I thought the USA was the only modern nation without health   
   insurance for everyone.   
      
   >   
   >> Well it does not work too well but I use headlamps with LEDs run   
   >> from batteries to illuminate my work or search space.  I have a light   
   >> here on articulated arm to deal with my desktop.   
   >   
   > I may have to get me one of those too.   
   >   
   >> Take care and good luck with the hardware.   
   >   
   > Thank you, Bobbie. :)   
      
   	And thank you for countless pages of good writing about   
   partitioning and other matters.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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