[andrewcooke]

good luck. i can imagine how you are feeling - hopefully it's something simple / physical, but if it is ms and you want a programmer to talk to, feel free to contact me ([e-mail]). although i have ok vision so won't be much help with this particular issue (when first diagnosed, i did try to get emacs working with audio output, terrified i would be blind in days, but ms isn't necessarily that bad, and the attempt fizzled with it only half-working...) (there is a linux distro for blind people - i didn't install it, but my impression was it was pretty out-of-date and it would be better to try get emacs-speak working on what i already had).