http://www.digital-literacies.com/2009/02/21/dipping-my-toe-in-the-water/ Researching New Literacies, Learning and Everyday Life Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:07:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.digital-literacies.com/2009/02/21/dipping-my-toe-in-the-water/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Sheila Webber Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:40:00 +0000 http://www.digital-literacies.com/?p=90#comment-175 I have just seen this post - I was off work for 8 weeks following my emergency appendix operation and I certainly came back (and came back a bit too soon, I now think) finding it all rather baffling - all this stuff I was doing and that I was expected to do and somehow I had managed to do before. I got back into my information literacy blog before almost anything else in that it is a more straightforward activity (since it is mostly an info blog) which I could do in a relatively short time and feel I'd done something that day. I still feel that it not impossible that somehow some of my brain cells got flushed out when they administered the general anasthetic, because there are some things that seemed to disappear along the the appendix. Although they did an incision (not keyhole) it is still not a major operation really, and it is very clear cut (they take the appendix out - then unless it festers your life is no longer in danger). Still, it seems to have had a major impact - and I'm sure the age thing is a factor, both physically and mentally. I have just seen this post – I was off work for 8 weeks following my emergency appendix operation and I certainly came back (and came back a bit too soon, I now think) finding it all rather baffling – all this stuff I was doing and that I was expected to do and somehow I had managed to do before. I got back into my information literacy blog before almost anything else in that it is a more straightforward activity (since it is mostly an info blog) which I could do in a relatively short time and feel I’d done something that day. I still feel that it not impossible that somehow some of my brain cells got flushed out when they administered the general anasthetic, because there are some things that seemed to disappear along the the appendix. Although they did an incision (not keyhole) it is still not a major operation really, and it is very clear cut (they take the appendix out – then unless it festers your life is no longer in danger). Still, it seems to have had a major impact – and I’m sure the age thing is a factor, both physically and mentally.

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