Old Injuries

Several months ago I took a pretty good fall after tripping over an open cabinet door. I was pretty sore the next couple of days but we quickly laughed about how it sounded like the house was collapsing when I so gracefully went down.

The problem is, I'm still suffering a bit in my left wrist. I suspect there's some more serious damage that has affected bones or connective tissue (or both.) On top of that, there's numbness in the pinky and ring finger on my left hand.

What does any of this have to do with the blog? Well, it's compromising my ability to hold a knife and it's also made it very difficult to do much typing and I'm making lots of typos.

The numbness presents a couple of opportunities for me though. I've got to try some new knife handles to see if I can find something that takes advantage of my hand strength in the thumb, index, and middle finger more than the full grip. Maybe a traditional handle like on a leuku.

I've got to go get it checked out but it'll have to wait until after the holidays and, frankly, there's little rush now because if a bone was broken it has had plenty of time to heal wrong and will probably need to be rebroken.

I'll sure be glad to be rid of the numbness though.

Thanks for reading,


B