LIVIN AS A LEFTY

Last year when I had my rotator cuff surgery on my left shoulder it was very inconvenient trying to do every day things with just one arm. I kept thinking "well at least I'm right handed". With my upcoming rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder I will have to depend on my left hand to learn some new tricks.  I have worked with both my hands all my life, but there are some things that the left hand just has never tried, or not been very good at.

  When I was a young man, I was always proud of the fact that the left hand was naturally adept at undoing a 3 hook bra with the reach around move. Of course the right hand was a little better at this move, but sometimes the right hand had other responsibilities.  Sad to say that these days, the left hand has been semi-retired, at least from that move. Since finding out that the right arm will be shutting down for the next few months, I have been giving the left hand some new responcibilities.  It started this morning with my every morning ritual in the bathroom.

 I know what your thinking "ewwwwww" and you are probably wondering which of the 2 possibilities I am referring to. I have too much class to say which it is, but given that fact that I'm almost 57 years old you can probably take an educated guess which ritual I'm talking about.  Suffice it to say that this was a foreign operation for the left hand and so much more training is needed.  Heard from the surgery scheduler Friday and it looks like I have plenty of time to train the left hand, surgery won't be for another month!  I guess  the Docs business is booming.

   At least I can count on the left hand to open a can of beer and work the remote and I do most of my typing with my IPhone now, so you can expect my mundane blog to continue.