The Heartbreak of TickledyBumptyBoom

I broke a whole set of my favorite glasses -- I put all these wine glasses on a tray and crashed the whole thing on the floor. I don't want to do that again. I'm going to be very careful and have somebody else bring those damned glasses.

I just try to make adjustments to the things I notice are happening. And then I'm not bothered by it, because they don't happen.

That's so smart.

Oh, yes, I'm very smart.

Are you right-handed?

I am right-handed, and now I have to learn to work with my left hand. So I actually went to an art class recently to see if I could develop my left hand, [develop] more coordination with it. That's another thing that's a fine line. I don't know whether to try to develop my left hand at writing or if I should keep forcing my right hand to write and keep up the ability that I have left. So, you know, I do a little of both.

Has your doctor weighed in on that?

Yeah, he tells me to keep using my right hand. I want to put this brace on my arm all the time, because it feels better . . . but he says, well, don't do it too much, because you'll get dependent on it.

And I think it's the same thing with my leg. I wear this brace because I have drop foot, and I should walk around without the brace sometimes, but it's so much easier to walk with it that I put it on all the time, and I very rarely take it off.

Do you do exercise?