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Best Advice for the Newly One-Handed

Published May 26, 2025 by helentastic67

Best Advice for the Newly One-Handed

Always keep a part or parts of your hand free and clean. You never know when you need to pause something with the edge of a hand or finger or put out a hand to catch yourself from stumbling over.

Nobody bothers to tell you this it’s something you work out over time. You are welcome!



Best Advice

Published December 18, 2023 by helentastic67

Best Advice

Once upon a time pre-treatment, I was given some very handy advice for when seeing specialist doctors.

I was told “take a book!”

I was actually going to see her neurosurgeon. So, she knew I’d be waiting. Reading materials in hospital waiting rooms my mum and I would compete as to who had the oldest magazine. Best game ever.

Meanwhile, fifteen years on and I’m still waiting in the waiting rooms and I’ve next levelled and packed my iPad.

Only thing is, I’m one-handed and have half the eyesight. I cannot balance my bag, keep-cup (medicine) walking stick, let alone iPad on top of all those things. So, here I am taping out a blog post on to my phone and I’m now feeling weirdly seedy, Super.

If you recall? I gave the advice early on, any doctor you have to wait for is a doctor worth seeing.

Still true. Next time? Not bringing my iPad. Too heavy.