Laptop Typing problem

Jukebox wrote:

Have you tried plugging the USB transmitter into a different socket?

Thanks but that was my first move Jukebox.

I am doing OK atm thanks, tomorrow that may change as I visit my insultant Consultant to discover results of multiple scans and tests. I don’t mind the constant 40 mile round trips, think I can drive the A16 blindfold now! (Some drivers appear to be doing that anyway?) I also continue to have Free Parking, which is great, if only there were more Blue Badge spaces.

I cannot get the powers that be to understand that my nose and sinuses need checking out. Every morning there is a discharge of old blood and mucus, some of it black and obviously old. I intend to ask for an ENT appointment when I see the aforementioned consultant. I am convinced that my recent severe infection, causing a hospital stay of 2 weeks in a quarantined ward, began in my nose and sinuses. Sometimes medical people will not listen to a complaint outside their area of expertise.

Tell your wife that I also suffer pains outside of areas that one would consider caused by ops or associated treatment. I refuse to let it affect me and refuse to think “Is this something else?”

Too right Ryan! Some nights I find my best, deepest sleep is from around 4 or 5 am: the rest of the night is broken by my enlarged Prostate. Good job the WC is right next to the bedroom! My missus understands and does not wake me. Strangely, after getting up around 10 or 11 am, I then feel physically exhausted, so slob about in my dressing gown, eat breakfast and feel better after a shower and shave. Some weeks ago, I woke as my senior granddaughter came through the door. “Why are you in bed Granddad?” That is one of the very few times I have seen my missus angry at a grandbrat. “Leave granddad be! Do you not understand what he has gone through this year? He sleeps until he wakes, now get out of the bedroom and keep your voice down!” I love my GD, but she does tend to speak (loudly) before engaging her brain. She also has definite opinions about everything and everyone. Someday she may learn that not everything is as clear-cut as she sees it. Perhaps some of that is my fault, I have always had no barriers between my grandbrats and myself and have always spoken to them as if they were adults, even from their early years.

EDIT after reading Nolan’s post: fatigue is definitely worse than the pain. I still cannot get used to not doing what I used to be able to do. For example, as a mechanic and motor engineer, I had tremendous hand strength, right up to my Pancreas op in April this year. The aftermath of that, and the chemo, has robbed me of that strength. I lost so much weight, so quickly, that I still have batwings under my upper arms and much of my muscle wasted away. It is gradually returning, but forgetting that I cannot do this or that, is often disturbing and sometimes painful.

I know it’s coming back, because yesterday I filled my new toolbox and managed to lift it onto its trolley, with ease.

Richard, many thanks. You describe to a ‘T’ what happens to me, “coal mining” fits perfectly! I will push for ENT investigation.

As for the Typing text problem: I wonder if a wired USB mouse would work to remove the problem?

Dave, you gave me a clue: the text jumble also only happens on web pages. Opening Open Office Writer and typing, is fine. I get the annoyance second hand, via SWMBO’s frustration and her belief that I know everything.??? (That only happens when something goes wrong!)

It appears that the more we try to get rid of cables, the more we discover that we may actually need them!

Don’t have a wired mouse handy Ed, so I sent for this HP item:

http://tinyurl.com/y8lg6f5k

My thinking was that

1 – I really should have a wired mouse available anyway, one of those items that is handy to have in reserve.

2 – an HP 1000 dpi model at <£6 has to be worth a try.

Let’s see what happens when SWMBO tries it. ??

Thanks Richard, no lamps and/or LED’s close to the lappy, but overhead is a 3-LED light cluster. Going to check that out by using it in the next room.

I changed to an optical wired HP mouse and discovered that it now only jumps around when typing in Web Pages online. I typed a whole A4 page of text in Open Office without a problem.

Back to the metaphorical drawing Board…