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My dad died of MND (ALS in the US) five years ago. He tried to keep on coding with voice recognition software when his hands became too weak to use a keyboard, but his productivity dropped to <10% of what it was before. I ended up finishing his freelance projects off, and he never really used a computer again. He’d always been a very active person, and balanced the mental rigour of coding and database architecture with physical crafts: cooking, gardening, building etc. Being stuck in a shell of a body was never going to be enough for him unfortunately.


I'm sorry to hear of your father passing away.

Recently I have spent quite a lot of time with no right hand movement.

The impairment, pain was negligible compared to the frustration of performing everything so much slower.




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