Story - Hartwig Distler

overtaxed.
Cross word mystery
At the beginning I was already glad, if I had created a pair of letter in 10 minutes. There wasn't a chance to make something accurate. I always
carried the solution of the cross word mystery with me. Simply in order to get again a feeling for the characters. After 2 1/2 years I am now
ready to make some solutions. But is still mix up the characters sometimes. Still relatively little, but nevertheless I get already some of them
correctly. For the remainder I must still look still into the solution of the cross word mystery. But that is also a good exercise, since I must note
the words correctly in that exercise. And it is simply beautiful to see, how it becomes each day a bit better.
Scanning
Again such a small exercise. Scanning of a page into the scanner on the computer. The first task was to bring the scanner back to running.
That took already 2 days, in order to bring the scanner back to running. Then to get everything working again took 3-4 days. But it is so
beautiful to sit again at the computer. At the beginning nothing worked at all, but with the time I developed something like a "feeling for the
computer". I should add that I was programming driving simulators before my illness. And each day it becomes a bit more what I can do at the
computer. By my abilities in former times I am still far, far, away, but a beginning is made.
I had already said it once, but I remark it again: It is amazing what I learned before my illness. One just does not notice it, how many thing you
can do. Only by my illness I got aware of how many individual things my knowledge is made of.
26.01.2008
Learning English
I started to learn English again relatively fast after getting sick. At the beginning nothing worked. No more letters, as said, nothing more at at.
Then I concerned myself on learning the characters again in German. At that point I only was doing the little communication in German. After
half a year I began again to learn English. I should perhaps mention that my English was relatively good before my sickness. As said, I have
started again after half a year to make English again. At the beginning it were only words, then at some point simple sentences, and then more
complex sentences.
In the end I hang in English nearly at the some problems as in German. Reading is still very slow. If I read, I only read, but I cannot
understand. As said before, at many places I had the some types of problems in both languages. But in both languages it make a lot of fun to
be able to read and write again. It will take some time, until I can read and write again problem free. But a beginning is made. And even more
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