Pushing yourself too hard may lead you to running into brick walls, after what you encountered may slowly take a year or two to recover.
Best you did was return to the office, start challenging the challenges you now face. Training yourself in touch typing may be an excellent exercise for both mind and hands.
Qwerty keyboard must be slightly raised at the back to rest your wrists on the desk (my style), cover keyboard with an apron, fingers typing with hands beneath apron or cloth... follow lessons approximately 30 minutes per day, in time it becomes second nature!
Use a hand drawn keyboard in front of you (if you like little visual extra), start training with your daughter, make it a game... hands first asdfgf ;lkjhj then fingers aqaza ;p;/; > swsxs lol.l > takes awhile to familiarize oneself by speaking the letter out loud and typing... no matter who is on the keyboard at any given time.
Each has a style of their own, having touch typed, using numeral keys from memory since high school it is beneficial to learn.
Strengthening fingers can be done anytime of day, stretch hold in stretched position, then try curl first knuckle then second knuckle, bringing into tight fist hold, then relax, repeat... also split fingers when stretched out, one by one another mind game during exercising hands.
Good luck with touch typing, being an author a massive time saver in long run!
I have been meaning to do a course for about 20 years!
One f my friends worked a register at a supermarket and back then, they were typing in codes often - he was insanely fast on a keypad!
I wonder how many hours I would have saved if I had been able to touch type the last five year - and, how many delete key presses :)
Thank you for the lessons Joan!
Never too old or too young to learn something new, perhaps the time is right to get this going, let your daughter join in too it will be beneficial to her future.
I remember some of the boys in our school being teased about taking typing as a subject, now I smile when I think back now how much they must have appreciated those lessons learned long before computers arrived. Oh teacher was a male for a couple of years as well.