Yet again I am having problems with this RSI. Yesterday was one of the worst days I have had with it for a long time. The unbelievable thing is I did so little to create the problem in the first place: a very small amount of typing led to a massive pain in my neck spreading to my left hand and not only that I had aching feet! The strange thing is being quite into hiking I have to walk quite a long way to get any aching in my feet whatsoever. Why bother, just type a couple of e-mails to friends and my feet are totally knackered. What really got me was the general tiredness that I felt. Again, I have to walk an awful long way before I get tired. The doctor reckons that the tiredness just comes about because it is my body's way of dealing with the pain, in other words I do not feel so much pain but I do feel tired.

I am really thinking out about how to get through my teacher training course. All of the planning will have to be done with voice recognition which is not a problem so long as I can work on my own because obviously speaking out loud will affect any other students I am with. Of course, the thing that really bothers me is that once I teach in a school full-time I will be doing all of the planning at home where I can work on my own. I just wonder how much I can get away with using the computer at the school? The trouble is all I can do at home is a few minutes typing and that triggers a full-blown RSI attack which does not right itself for a least 12 hours.

I want to just get on with my mathematics unhindered by this problem. Part of me says just forget about the future and get on with the mathematics in its own right. It is very interesting after all and as my wife says I will be able to work as a home tutor and do some supply teaching. But it is getting through the teacher training course in the first place which is the problem. Working as an unqualified teacher is an option and I know that once I am in the school they will want me to stay. But who on earth can work under such uncertainties? Since I have been six years of age I have been handicapped in my right arm but with this RSI it makes me feel doubly handicapped.