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May 14, 2019
Excerpt from The President is Missing
I have put EDS, book #2 of Medical Kidnap Files on sale for $0.99 for Ehlers Danlos Awareness month. If you didn’t get a copy or see my article about EDS, have a look.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I was surprised to find The President is Missing on my virtual library shelf and not to have to put a hold on it. I’ve been interested in reading this Bill Clinton/James Patterson title since it came out. The combination of someone who has been U.S. President and one of the greatest thriller writers makes for a rich, edge-of-your-seat presidential thriller. I am enjoying it so far!
“You have made no secret, Mr. President, that you prefer dialogue over shows of force, that you’d rather talk things out with terrorists.”
James Patterson, Bill Clinton, The President is Missing
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The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet. Even the President himself becomes a suspect, and then he disappears from public view…
Set over the course of three days, The President Is Missing sheds a stunning light upon the inner workings and vulnerabilities of our nation. Filled with information that only a former Commander-in-Chief could know, this is the most authentic, terrifying novel to come along in many years.
May 9, 2019
EDS Awareness Month
— Dr. Theodore Woodward’s advice in making a diagnosis.
Sometimes when you hear hoofbeats, it really is a zebra. — Ehler’s Danlos Society
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May is Ehlers Danlos Syndrome awareness month. While EDS is becoming better known, it is still a rare disease and a lot of people haven’t ever heard of it. And unfortunately, it is not something that a lot of doctors recognize, often believing that the symptoms are imagined, unrelated to each other, or the person is just clumsy.
But EDS can be a debilitating disease, and victims with the vascular subtype in particular susceptible to early death due to aortic tears organ rupture.
What is EDS?
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome is a connective tissue disorder resulting in hypermobile joints, and stretchy or fragile skin.
A more detailed descriptionEDS Awareness Page on FacebookPictures of real people with EDS
About my EDS book
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One of my friends from school has EDS. Even though she was diagnosed with hypermobile joints in junior high and went through a number of joint collapses causing broken bones, she was not diagnosed until adulthood, when her two sons were diagnosed with EDS.
I wanted to help with spreading awareness about EDS. As I researched EDS, it occurred to me that it would make a good disease to base one of my medical kidnap books around. A child with frequent dislocations and broken bones, deep bruises, and terrible scarring could easily be mistaken for one suffering from domestic abuse. So, I started work on EDS, book #2 of the Medical Kidnap Files.
Teaser
With a long string of unbelievable stories to explain her frequent injuries, Social Services sees Katt is the stereotypical abused child. When she is admitted to hospital with yet another broken bone, they do the only logical thing to protect her, removing Katt from her mother’s custody.
But Katt and her mother know that something is wrong, and it has nothing to do with abuse, and the longer Katt stays in foster care, the worse her health gets. Can they get the answers they need before it is too late? Can they get the answers and get Katt back home?
Read sample
Kindle
$0.99 for the month of May
EDS and medical kidnap in the news
And just in case you think it could never happen…
Medical Kidnapping in Maine: Child with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome & Sister Seized
“There’s about 10 to 15 percent of the EDS population that’s been adopted. Most of them tell me I was adopted because I was supposedly abused. Now, when I sit back and look at it I think was that parent really abusing that child? I don’t think so,” said Wilson.
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Spread the word!
Spread awareness of EDS on your social networks and let them know about my $0.99 deal.
May 8, 2019
Viable Hostage
Viable Hostage by Audrey J. Cole
When Malorie’s roommate goes missing, no one seems concerned about the wayward medical student’s disappearance—until another student’s partial remains wash ashore a Seattle beach…
Viable Hostage is part of the Do No Harm collection, which is now available for preorder!
Do No Harm
May 7, 2019
Excerpt from The Underground Railroad
I hope you managed to pick up a copy of Sour Cherry Turnover over the weekend. If not, you can still buy it at the Kindle store. And book number nine in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series, Vegan Baked Alaska, will be out in a couple more weeks.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I recently started reading Altered Carbon after hearing it recommended a couple of places, but I set it aside today. Not going to finish that one. So instead, the book I read before that: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. This Pulitzer Prize Winner is pretty raw, so be sure you’re prepared before you start. Also be advised that it is fiction and some of the flights of fancy may take you off guard in a book that pretends realism.
It was her grandmother talking that Sunday evening when Caesar approached Cora about the Underground Railroad, and she said no.
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Three weeks later she said yes.
This time it was her mother talking.
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.
Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
May 2, 2019
Sour Cherry Turnover and other free books
It’s time for another freebie roundup! Keep reading for the details!
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Sour Cherry Turnover, book #7 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series is free on Kindle this weekend!
And don’t forget that book #1, Gluten-Free Murder, is currently only $0.99!
Erin told anyone who would listen that she was not concerned about The Bake Shoppe reopening, but in her heart of hearts, she was worried about whether Auntie Clem’s Bakery would be able to survive a direct competitor in Bald Eagle Falls. She can’t help feeling resentment toward Charley starting up a competing business and expecting her advice and support.
But a brutal murder soon reminds her that there are worse things than competition. Especially when she is discovered with the murder weapon in her hand.
Worried that Vic’s brother Jeremy may be involved, Erin tries to protect him from the investigation.
Treasure seekers, drug dealers, and secret tunnels; Erin needs to untangle it all before time runs out.
Read sample
Download
Other freebies
I have scoured Amazon and talked to fellow writers to find you other books that are free this weekend. Have a look and pick a few up!
Jude’s Song
There comes a time when you have to follow your own dreams.
Tasha Keeley is a singing prodigy. She even won a talent show on television. She has been offered a recording contract from Aidan O’Brien.
She should be over the moon.
Instead, she wishes she’d never sung a note.
Jude is Aiden O’Brien’s equipment manager. He has been working for musicians since he was a teenager to get his big break. He would give his right arm to be offered a recording contract.
Bundle of Trouble
A body has been dredged from the San Francisco Bay. Kate Connolly, pregnant and ready to pop, has reason to fear it may be her long lost brother-in-law. When a private investigator begins nosing around, Kate decides on a new career path. Battling sleep deprivation, diaper blowouts and breastfeeding mishaps she muddles through her own investigation, Mommy style:
To do:
1. Find Killer
2. Figure out hideous breast pump.
3. Avoid cranky cop.
4. Send out Make birth announcements.
5. Buy pink paper for the birth announcements.
5. FIND KILLER
Family life has never been so exciting, but after Kate launches her own female detective agency, she may just get more than she bargained for.
A Body on the Porch
When a retired detective encounters a stranger standing outside a restaurant when both of them are on vacation and the stranger finds out what he did before he retired, the detective jokingly tells the stranger that he will come and solve a murder for him if he goes home and finds a body on his front porch.
Download
Last Call
A Dumpster, a body, and a killer on the run.
Unfazed after finding a body behind the Dumpster of her bar, Janet Black is ready for business as usual until police start eyeing her boyfriend as the possible killer. When the victim’s teetotaling daughter decides to take up residence in the corner booth until the murderer is caught, Janet is forced to get involved.
She’d rather be dealing with unruly customers, but instead Janet reluctantly mounts her own investigation to find out if the dead man’s complicated past could have anything to do with his death, whether an unreliable employee’s absence is mere coincidence, and why police are purposefully feeding her bad information about the case.
Moonglow Cafe
New York reporter Paige MacKenzie has a hidden motive when she heads to the small town of Timberton, Montana. Assigned to research the area’s unique Yogo sapphires for the Manhattan Post, she hopes to reconnect romantically with handsome cowboy Jake Norris. The local gem gallery offers the material needed for the article, but the discovery of an old diary, hidden inside the wall of a historic hotel, soon sends her on a detour into the underworld of art and deception.
Each of the town’s residents holds a key to untangling more than one long-buried secret, from the hippie chick owner of a new age café to the mute homeless man in the town park. As the worlds of western art and sapphire mining collide, Paige finds herself juggling research, romance and danger.
The Silence of the Snakes
A cursed emerald.
A suspicious snake.
There’s something strange going on at Snidely Safari Park. A mystery illness is spreading through the staff.
When a zookeeper collapses inside the lion enclosure, Madigan Amos is the only one close enough to make a decision that could save the keeper, or condemn them both.
Then, one stormy night, a stranger turns up at the zoo bearing a sickly green mamba… but Madi smells a rat.
Pasta, Pinot & Murder
Food blogger Willa Friday is excited to start training her new assistant to make recipes and style food. And she’s excited that her blog, A Dish in Thyme, is finally making enough money to hire an assistant. But she has other obligations too, like the food photography for the annual Whine & Roses Benefit poster.
Dreading her meeting, Willa gets a surprise when she arrives and the vineyard owner is dead.
With her (ex)mother-in-law as the prime suspect, Willa reluctantly gets involved in the investigation. In the process, she learns of the many secrets the vineyard owners of Pear, California are hiding, which puts her directly in the killer’s line of fire.
Treated as Murder
Set in 1931, Edith Horton is a former VAD who finds herself not only struggling with her inner demons, but with the presence of evil in her village in the Yorkshire Dales. Her brother is suspected of murdering an elderly wealthy widow, and sins of the past have echoes in her life and the lives of those close to her.
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From Garden To Grave
Murder. It’s a perennial problem.
Verity Hawkes is a shut-in. After two years bunkered in her apartment, the only thing that gets her out is the disappearance of her beloved but eccentric aunt. As she takes over her aunt’s landscaping shop, she’ll need to go from hoarder to horticulturist in a hurry…
Her new home of Leafy Hollow is quaint, except for her most obnoxious client. When a series of freak accidents kills the customer, all signs point to Verity as the killer.
The hunt for answers is on, and Verity must question a tipsy carpenter, a bacon-peddling vegan restaurateur, and her dreamy landscaping competitor to keep her new life afloat.
Failure to find the truth could put her back in a confined space for much more than two years…
Buried
In the coastal town of Twisted Cedars, Oregon an ugly secret from the past has been festering for over thirty years when five librarians were targeted by a serial killer. Now an anonymous emailer wants true crime writer Dougal Lachlan to tell the story. To uncover the truth Dougal enlists the help of local Twisted Cedar librarian Charlotte Hammond.
Since the disappearance of her older sister, Daisy, eight years ago, Charlotte has led a quiet, sheltered life. But as Dougal’s investigation proceeds she realizes there is no safe zone. Not even in libraries. And especially not in Twisted Cedars.
Cupcakes and Cyanide
Welcome to Ashton Point. One sweet taste could be her last.
Charlotte McCorrson has spent her entire life building her business, CC’s Simply Cupcakes. The town of Ashton Point is her home and she’s garnered a reputation of stellar service and delightful pastries, one nibble at a time. But everything isn’t as sweet in the sleepy, coastal town as Charlotte would like to think. She is in for a rude awakening and no amount of sugar will make this medicine go down any smoother.
After catering a large town-wide event, Ashton Point’s morning newspaper fills Charlotte McCorrson with an icy sense of dread. The headlines scream Cupcake Killer! and put the blame squarely on CC’s Simply Cupcakes. When bodies begin to pile up behind her confectionary goodies, Charlotte must prove that while her cupcakes are delicious, they aren’t literally to die for—before she ends up in jail for a crime she didn’t commit.
Sour Cherry Turnover and other freebies
It’s time for another freebie roundup! Keep reading for the details!
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Sour Cherry Turnover, book #7 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series is free on Kindle this weekend!
And don’t forget that book #1, Gluten-Free Murder, is currently only $0.99!
Erin told anyone who would listen that she was not concerned about The Bake Shoppe reopening, but in her heart of hearts, she was worried about whether Auntie Clem’s Bakery would be able to survive a direct competitor in Bald Eagle Falls. She can’t help feeling resentment toward Charley starting up a competing business and expecting her advice and support.
But a brutal murder soon reminds her that there are worse things than competition. Especially when she is discovered with the murder weapon in her hand.
Worried that Vic’s brother Jeremy may be involved, Erin tries to protect him from the investigation.
Treasure seekers, drug dealers, and secret tunnels; Erin needs to untangle it all before time runs out.
Read sample
Download
Other freebies
I have scoured Amazon and talked to fellow writers to find you other books that are free this weekend. Have a look and pick a few up!
Jude’s Song
There comes a time when you have to follow your own dreams.
Tasha Keeley is a singing prodigy. She even won a talent show on television. She has been offered a recording contract from Aidan O’Brien.
She should be over the moon.
Instead, she wishes she’d never sung a note.
Jude is Aiden O’Brien’s equipment manager. He has been working for musicians since he was a teenager to get his big break. He would give his right arm to be offered a recording contract.
Bundle of Trouble
A body has been dredged from the San Francisco Bay. Kate Connolly, pregnant and ready to pop, has reason to fear it may be her long lost brother-in-law. When a private investigator begins nosing around, Kate decides on a new career path. Battling sleep deprivation, diaper blowouts and breastfeeding mishaps she muddles through her own investigation, Mommy style:
To do:
1. Find Killer
2. Figure out hideous breast pump.
3. Avoid cranky cop.
4. Send out Make birth announcements.
5. Buy pink paper for the birth announcements.
5. FIND KILLER
Family life has never been so exciting, but after Kate launches her own female detective agency, she may just get more than she bargained for.
A Body on the Porch
When a retired detective encounters a stranger standing outside a restaurant when both of them are on vacation and the stranger finds out what he did before he retired, the detective jokingly tells the stranger that he will come and solve a murder for him if he goes home and finds a body on his front porch.
DownloadLast Call
A Dumpster, a body, and a killer on the run.
Unfazed after finding a body behind the Dumpster of her bar, Janet Black is ready for business as usual until police start eyeing her boyfriend as the possible killer. When the victim’s teetotaling daughter decides to take up residence in the corner booth until the murderer is caught, Janet is forced to get involved.
She’d rather be dealing with unruly customers, but instead Janet reluctantly mounts her own investigation to find out if the dead man’s complicated past could have anything to do with his death, whether an unreliable employee’s absence is mere coincidence, and why police are purposefully feeding her bad information about the case.
Moonglow Cafe
New York reporter Paige MacKenzie has a hidden motive when she heads to the small town of Timberton, Montana. Assigned to research the area’s unique Yogo sapphires for the Manhattan Post, she hopes to reconnect romantically with handsome cowboy Jake Norris. The local gem gallery offers the material needed for the article, but the discovery of an old diary, hidden inside the wall of a historic hotel, soon sends her on a detour into the underworld of art and deception.
Each of the town’s residents holds a key to untangling more than one long-buried secret, from the hippie chick owner of a new age café to the mute homeless man in the town park. As the worlds of western art and sapphire mining collide, Paige finds herself juggling research, romance and danger.
The Silence of the Snakes
A cursed emerald.
A suspicious snake.
There’s something strange going on at Snidely Safari Park. A mystery illness is spreading through the staff.
When a zookeeper collapses inside the lion enclosure, Madigan Amos is the only one close enough to make a decision that could save the keeper, or condemn them both.
Then, one stormy night, a stranger turns up at the zoo bearing a sickly green mamba… but Madi smells a rat.
Pasta, Pinot & Murder
Food blogger Willa Friday is excited to start training her new assistant to make recipes and style food. And she’s excited that her blog, A Dish in Thyme, is finally making enough money to hire an assistant. But she has other obligations too, like the food photography for the annual Whine & Roses Benefit poster.
Dreading her meeting, Willa gets a surprise when she arrives and the vineyard owner is dead.
With her (ex)mother-in-law as the prime suspect, Willa reluctantly gets involved in the investigation. In the process, she learns of the many secrets the vineyard owners of Pear, California are hiding, which puts her directly in the killer’s line of fire.
Treated as Murder
Set in 1931, Edith Horton is a former VAD who finds herself not only struggling with her inner demons, but with the presence of evil in her village in the Yorkshire Dales. Her brother is suspected of murdering an elderly wealthy widow, and sins of the past have echoes in her life and the lives of those close to her.
DownloadFrom Garden To Grave
Murder. It’s a perennial problem.
Verity Hawkes is a shut-in. After two years bunkered in her apartment, the only thing that gets her out is the disappearance of her beloved but eccentric aunt. As she takes over her aunt’s landscaping shop, she’ll need to go from hoarder to horticulturist in a hurry…
Her new home of Leafy Hollow is quaint, except for her most obnoxious client. When a series of freak accidents kills the customer, all signs point to Verity as the killer.
The hunt for answers is on, and Verity must question a tipsy carpenter, a bacon-peddling vegan restaurateur, and her dreamy landscaping competitor to keep her new life afloat.
Failure to find the truth could put her back in a confined space for much more than two years…
Buried
In the coastal town of Twisted Cedars, Oregon an ugly secret from the past has been festering for over thirty years when five librarians were targeted by a serial killer. Now an anonymous emailer wants true crime writer Dougal Lachlan to tell the story. To uncover the truth Dougal enlists the help of local Twisted Cedar librarian Charlotte Hammond.
Since the disappearance of her older sister, Daisy, eight years ago, Charlotte has led a quiet, sheltered life. But as Dougal’s investigation proceeds she realizes there is no safe zone. Not even in libraries. And especially not in Twisted Cedars.
Cupcakes and Cyanide
Welcome to Ashton Point. One sweet taste could be her last.
Charlotte McCorrson has spent her entire life building her business, CC’s Simply Cupcakes. The town of Ashton Point is her home and she’s garnered a reputation of stellar service and delightful pastries, one nibble at a time. But everything isn’t as sweet in the sleepy, coastal town as Charlotte would like to think. She is in for a rude awakening and no amount of sugar will make this medicine go down any smoother.
After catering a large town-wide event, Ashton Point’s morning newspaper fills Charlotte McCorrson with an icy sense of dread. The headlines scream Cupcake Killer! and put the blame squarely on CC’s Simply Cupcakes. When bodies begin to pile up behind her confectionary goodies, Charlotte must prove that while her cupcakes are delicious, they aren’t literally to die for—before she ends up in jail for a crime she didn’t commit.
The Marburg Mutation
The Marburg Mutation by Allen Kent
When word circulates through the international terrorist and intelligence communities that a weaponized strain of the deadly Marburg virus is on the market to be auctioned to the highest bidder, Janet McIntire and the Unit 1 team race powerful buyers to identify the seller, destroy the mutation, and prevent a global pandemic.
The Marburg Mutation is part of the Do No Harm collection, which is now available for preorder!
Do No Harm
April 30, 2019
Excerpt from The Racketeer
I currently have a $0.99 flash sale going on for Gluten-Free Murder on Kindle. If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, hop on over and pick it up!
Be sure to come back this weekend for a freebie round-up! You won’t want to miss it.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I am reading John Grisham’s The Racketeer this week. It is classic Grisham, one of his better books. The twists and turns will keep you guessing from beginning to end.
He was humiliated, and he let me know it. How could his lawyer son get himself so entailed with such a slimy bunch of crooks?
I have asked myself the same question a thousand times. There is no good answer.
John Grisham, The Racketeer
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Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge’s untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland.
On paper, Malcolm’s situation isn’t looking too good these days, but he’s got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. The judge’s body was found in his remote lakeside cabin. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied.
What was in the safe? The FBI would love to know. And Malcolm Bannister would love to tell them. But everything has a price—especially information as explosive as the sequence of events that led to Judge Fawcett’s death. And the Racketeer wasn’t born yesterday . . .
Nothing is as it seems and everything’s fair game in this wickedly clever new novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller.
April 25, 2019
Overdose
Overdose by USA Today Bestselling Author Uvi Poznansky.
Months after recovering from coma, Ash discovers that the man who performed her brain surgery has a questionable medical experience and a dark past. Should she expose him, at the risk of becoming vulnerable to his revenge?
Overdose is part of the Do No Harm collection, which is now available for preorder!
Do No Harm
Making a stand
If you’ve been working in an office for the last few years, you have probably heard about the health dangers of sitting for hours on end. Sitting for too long at a time affects your metabolism rate, blood sugar, blood pressure, and the amount of fat that collects in your… er… hindquarters.
Just Google “the dangers of sitting” to learn why “sitting is the new smoking.”
Between my office job and my writing, I spend a lot of hours of the day at the keyboard, and until recently, all of my writing was done sitting down. That’s a lot of hours a day of sitting, and most of it in two or three hour blocks without a break. The last couple of years, it has become harder to keep off the weight and I developed a repetitive stress injury in my shoulder that didn’t improve significantly with any stretching/yoga/exercise. Ergonomically correct sitting is impossible for me due to a congenital condition. I have also found that office furniture is built for the average man’s height, which can be a problem for women, who are usually shorter, or for those who are taller than average.
Early this year, I made the decision to stand more to see if it would improve my health. I started with a couple of boxes on top of my desk at my home office to raise my laptop and second monitor to a standing position. While I quickly found out that a standing desk can be hard on the feet and legs, within a week my shoulder pain was gone. I made a similar adjustment to my computer at the office.
Standing Desk Ergonomics: How to Avoid Muscle Fatigue
Standing desk dilemma: Too much time on your feet?
I had used boxes to make temporary adjustments because I didn’t want to buy new furniture without being sure that I could maintain a standing desk lifestyle. I purchased an anti-fatigue mat for the office after a couple of weeks and was using a kneeling pad to cushion my feet at home, which I later replaced with a proper anti-fatigue mat.
I eventually bought risers for my desk at the office, and just this week for my desk at home. (Different models for different configurations.) In both cases, I have run into similar problems — the risers do not have independently adjustable levels for the monitor and the keyboard. The riser for my office was nice and high, bringing my monitor up to the right level, but would require me to type at chest level. I had to buy a separate keyboard and mouse stand that I could adjust to the correct height for my body.
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At my home office, the configuration requires me to adjust the riser so that my keyboard is at the right level, but the monitor is too low. I currently have the monitor raised higher with another box. I am expecting to get a new monitor soon, and am waiting to see what kind of height adjustment it has before investing in a more permanent riser for it.
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Good posture is important and I do still catch myself slouching while standing and need to correct my posture. The article below will help you to be sure your keyboard and monitor are are the correct heights.
Standing Desk Guide: Measurements, Examples and Benefits
While there are many health risks to sitting too much, there are also some issues with standing too much. Leg, foot, and back muscle pain are common, and varicose veins and increased cardiac risk are also possibilities. Some combination of sitting and standing is your best bet, so you either want an adjustable riser that you can lower or lift according to whether you want to stand or sit, or two separate stations, one sitting and one standing.
At the office I sit if I am writing by hand (filling forms, making notes, etc.) and over the lunch hour I use my personal laptop rather than my company desktop. I also have a second (and third) computer that I can use sitting down.
At home, I also sit down for the lunch hour, and at the end of the day I sit with my sweetie for a couple of hours. If I spend too much time typing while sitting, the shoulder pain returns (though not as bad as when I was doing it all day every day.) The riser that I am using at home is adjustable, so I can lower it back to sitting position if necessary.
For me, making the switch to a standing desk has definitely improved my RSI, and I hope that I will see longer-term benefits to my overall health.
How much of the day do you spend sitting? Do you need to make a change?
