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a concussion and a new phone

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2013.12.30

I recently switched to a new mobile provider and at the time turned down the phone they wanted to send me; now I've changed my mind.

My change of mind came when speaking with the mother of one of Ken's friends. She told me that she'd suffered a concussion when banging her head on a wrought-iron light fixture at a restaurant. Apparently her head's hurt terribly ever since she recovered, and her doctor's instructed her to remove all "screens" from her life.

So she's looking for a phone without a display screen, and I thought of one of the phones offered by my new provider:

Doro PhoneEasy 520X

It's a rugged unit with large buttons and adjustable screen text size, designed for people with limited vision who might need large buttons and possibly a hearing aid. In other words, seniors. I wondered if it might not help the person I'd spoken with, and sent her the link.

Thinking about it for a bit, though, I wondered if having larger type and a rugged phone might not be a good idea for me, too. So I've ordered one. Happily, I could still take advantage of the offer for a free one.

rand()m quote

I'd see the publicity guy come on the set and I'd go hide in the rafters. The crew would be like, ‘I haven't seen him.' And then they'd leave and I'd go back to work. Because that's what's fun: the doing, not the talking.

—Kurt Russell