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Here I Am Again... More Pain

         Sooner than I thought. What I forgot to mention in my last entry was the crazy pain I felt during all those hours of studying. Sitting here at my PC desk, I sometimes laid the book on my oversize keyboard shelf, sometimes holding the oversize textbook (about 10 x 14 inches, 470 pages) as you would a novel.
         When I'd lean forward, with the book on the keyboard shelf, my shoulders and right elbow would kill me. I'd end up trying to find a comfortable position for my right arm that would take away the elbow pain, which was the worst of them. No luck. But all those pains would scale back if I sat back and held the book. They were still there, but not as painful. But, it got uncomfortable holding that somewhat heavy, awkward book with both hands so I could sit back. So, I had to alternate. It got me through the studying, but with up to 12 more courses to go, I gotta find a more workable position. We'll see if I can find one before the next course, which should be sometime in October if I remember correctly (there are two testing windows a year). And that will be here before I know it.