[dshobbies]

Stupid suggestion, maybe you've already thought of it or are already incorporating -

I enjoy painting which requires sitting for long hours. After the point of no return, my thoracic muscles begin to ache beyond reason with pain enough to take my breath away. This is easily remedied by my recliner and in very short order but my day of painting is over.

Now, when I want to paint, I simply wear a very good back brace, something I'm sure most of us already have, and voila - no pain. I can paint most of the day.

I'm not suggesting our problems are similar - I'm simply suggesting you try a back brace to postpone your own point of pain. But then again, maybe you're already doing that!

And btw, if you're dragon program is out of date, you can buy last years version rather inexpensively on ebay.