Getting excited about the start of school

[conuly]

Have to inveigle Ana to get new clothes for herself (no, Ana, two pairs of pants and a shirt of your mom's is NOT sufficient for school, thank you) and roughly plan some lessons but - oh, I am so excited! This feeling will fade, better make the most of it while I can.

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Comments

[lilysea]

Reputation Study Asks, Would You Rather Cut Off Your Hand or Be Known as a Nazi? (If thy right hand offend thee....)

Okay, I have firsthand experience of how hard life is when you can't use one hand due to severe hand/wrist pain - *so many* activities of daily living require two hands, (even lifting your breast up with one hand so you can put antibiotic cream on a wound on the underneath of your breast with the other hand!)

and I have to say, as much as I would hate to be known as a Nazi (and that would be *****A LOT*****), I would pick almost anything over losing one hand.

Using a power wheelchair is hard enough with two hands, it would be EVEN HARDER with one hand. (You need one hand for the joystick, and another to open the door.)

I don't think it's a fair question.

For starters, the more experience someone has with chronic pain/chronic illness/disability, the more likely they are to realise the full repercussions on all the activities of daily living of losing a hand, and therefore pick the other option.

[conuly]

Most likely they didn't ask anybody with any sort of disability.

Though I suppose if your hand had been cut off you could get a prosthetic. Those are getting better, I keep being told.