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looking for things to keep me busy over the next few weeks whilst my tendon grafts heal.
So what can you do with one hand most crafts are out of th question

Ooh sorry Possum, what's that about then? I am worried about the tendons in my foot as I seem to have damaged them pretty badly.

Anyway, to get the ball rolling, and assuming you can still write:

1. Go out for a walk and admire the scenery.
2. Hand write letters to your relos and friends in England.

Hi Possum. Sorry to hear that. I hope it heals soon.

3. Presumably you can still type so keep up to date with your friends at Ssish.

4. Practice one handed juggling.

5. I can't remember - are you a man or a woman? Well as this forum isn't x-rated I will leave this one to the imagination.

6. Learn morse code.

7. We have a guy who comes to our jive classes who only has one arm. He's a really good dancer so - learn to dance.

Well you didn't expect sensible suggestions did you?

Zoe

8. drink

heres one for you..i had a mate at school who had no arms..he was amzing he did everything with his feet...including playing snooker...

so number 9...learn to play snooker with your feet

possum is a girl.
walking unfortunately is a bit difficult as i cant tie my shoe laces on my own, i have a cast from just below the elbow to the tips of my fingers, so only the thumb is of any use. i can still type with one hand though.
Millymollymandy is you have just over stretched your tendons you should be fine in a few months (they do take a while to heal), mine was an accident falling over the kitten in the middle of the night and putting the back of my hand through a glass completetly severing one and damaging others, that was six months ago, yesterday they did a repair job, swapping spare bits of tendon about (apparently the body is convenient to supply you with spare parts). i should be as good as new they say and able to play the violin again.

That sounds nasty! Lucky you didn't sever your arteries! I wish you a speedy recovery and in the meantime get Mr Possum to tie your shoe laces, or put on your wellies.

Millymollymandy is you have just over stretched your tendons you should be fine in a few months (they do take a while to heal)

Then hopefully only another month to go - bugger!

I hope you get better soon too!

Can you hold anything with the bandaged hand? How about learning to crochet?

Learn to tie your shoelaces with one hand (I had a one armed friend who could do this).

Learn to play the bass guitar like this.

12. (I think) Don't overtax your good hand, or you'll end up with tendonitis and you'll have tendon problems on both sides!

A tip for the shoe laces: have someone replace them with elastic cord for the time being.

Hope you recover well.

Jandra

possum wrote:i should be as good as new they say and able to play the violin again.

Could you play the violin before?

Zoe

yes, that was the only reason to get the hand fixed

Oh how cool! I can't play anything so I'm always impressed by people who can. Good luck with the hand I hope it heals well.

Zoe

learn american sign language. that's mostly one handed.

and hey, my answer up there is better than the one I first thought of when I read the title which was just to open a post and write "fner" in it.












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