IF you couldn't use a computer for a month...How would it affect you??

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Would you be devastated? Would you think, okay, I'll get some other things done in my life... How would you react if you were told by your doctor that you HAD to stay away from using a keyboard and spending more than 15 minutes twice a day on your computer was strictly prohibited?.. If in fact you were to decide to "cheat" it could mean that surgery is in your immediate future and following that you would be immobilized and unable to move your left shoulder, elbow, & wrist. But if you followed the instructions to simply stay off the computer for 30 days you have a 99% chance of avoiding any surgery... This is a little more radical than reality for me right now...but due to an increasingly restricted shoulder that has been treated with physical therapy for over 6 weeks...the recommendation today by both the physical therapist and the orthopedic doc were the same...use the computer for no more than 1 hour daily..broken into 3-4 settings and optimally only 2 sessions for 10 - 15 minutes each per day. I have written about this shoulder before..I had no idea it would take so long to heal...It is not from an injury but rather an inflammation that has left me with chronic tendonopathy and muscle atrophy in my left shoulder and those issues have complicated my shoulder/clavical joint. I have followed everything they have told me to do for the last 6 weeks...now I have to sign on to the new restrictions as they showed me proof today of the increase in inflammation from using the computer... How about you? Would this change your life for 30 - 45 days? Would you cheat? Would you just go for the surgery and wait out the 6 weeks and be done with it?...I already have to be off work because I fill presciptions all day long and all the repetitive motion only makes it worse..ACCCCCKKKKK..I'm really bummed about this...but I need to hear from my friends here at myLot how this would impact you in your life if you were given the ultimatum...( It's very painful so I'm willing to do whatever it takes..) but you just don't think about what it would be like to be removed from your link to the world!!!! Tell me what you would be feeling/thinking right now if your diagnosis was serious and you needed to comply with this!! Be honest..( like I need to tell you that!!!) Sigh....I'll just have to up my typing speed so I can respond to more posts in 15 minutes...