So I took a spill on that municipal ice slick they think is a sidewalk here in MPLS, and I seem to have sprained my right wrist. Yes I am left handed, but no, you really do need both hands to make jewelry.
I can do everything, which is nice, but slowly and painfully, which is frustrating to no end.
So, features and things will resume, but for now I've been battling to get out everyone's valentine goodies in a timely fashion. Ugh.


Yep, it's painful and slow but worth it. I broke both wrists and a thumb all at the same time once while roller skating. It was bad enough to require surgery. I was part way through making a chain maille bag when it all happened. I figured out how to hold the plyers between the fingers and cast on each hand and kept working, albiet VERY slowly. I was only expected to get about 40% use back in my thumb after physical therapy. When my casts came off my doctor was amazed. I had 95% use of my thumb and hadn't even started the physical therapy! He asked me what I had been doing and I pulled the project out of my purse and showed him. The movements I'd been doing with the plyers were the exact movements I would have been doing in physical therapy. He now takes my x-rays to conventions to show off. So you keep making that jewelry. It gets easier every day.
Posted by: Avogana | January 22, 2009 at 09:55 AM
A far more complaint-worthy saga than mine!
To get me to stop using it you'd probably have to knock me out with something. Thanks for the encouragement and I'm glad you're better!
Posted by: bombalurina | January 22, 2009 at 10:46 AM