Saturday, February 14, 2009

Writing with my left hand

Although I am right-handed, I sometimes find it fun to try writing with my left hand.

Except I sort of had to do it for real this week.

Monday night I slipped and slid on some ice and ended up with a very nasty-looking swollen finger on my right hand.

All my happy pessimistic friends decided it must be broken. So I got an x-ray on Thursday.
But it wasn't broken.

Meanwhile, however, I kept that finger taped up to another one using masking tape (a gentler alternative to duct tape, I thought) because it was so swollen and hurt if I bent it wrong.

And by the end of a long day of taking notes with my peculiar finger arrangement, my hand hurt. But I still had a crib sheet for an exam left to finish.

So I wrote it with my left hand until my right hand felt good enough to pick up writing again.

2 comments:

  1. It is good that you were able to use both of your hands. Not everyone can. :-)
    If I tried it, it would take me a day just to make it neat enough to read!
    Glad that you didn't break it and it is now back to new.

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  2. Sorry to hear about your finger.

    I tried to learn to write with my left hand once, but it was a failure.

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