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Ahhhh! That's better!

It had got to the point where typing was dangerous - I was hitting keys at random! Cooking was hard work - The knife kept catching... And I couldn't pick up the pins and needles to sew! You could see I hadn't done any really serious housework for over a month just by looking at my hands! In fact, I hadn't touched them since BEFORE going into hospital!

Huh? I hear you ask...

My nails! They got too long to sew, and I finally found the clipper and sorted them! Now they are neat curves, not too long, not too short (I can still peel oranges and prize Lego bricks apart!). I can pin things and sew and not risk slicing bits off the ends into the soup, and do housework without risking bending one back painfully! Nor will I poke unwanted holes in me undies when I take them off, as happened last night!

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Kate Dicey
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Hahahaha.....that's too funny and oh so true. After my accident I went through quite a few years of not doing much of anything, including housework. My nails had become those lovely long, even length,perfect almond shaped and painted "lady nails" I had so envied. A good part of my time was spent propped on pillows watching TV and 'doing my nails". (This was when I first realized I possessed the strong "princess tendencies" I had been suppressing for years.) When I was finally able to get back into my work room I could not figure out how I had lost so much of my sewing dexterity in a few years, I was really terribly frustrated, I also couldn't seem to tie a fly that would stay on the hook. Plus the fact that everything I tried to do took so darned long if I managed to do it well. When the light bulb finally went on in my head I too grabbed the clippers and shortened up the claws. Now, I have taken classes with women who have long lovely nails and they seem to do OK and there is a girl at my bank that has nails half again as long as her fingers and she flies over the keyboard in a blur of lightening speed and never hits the backspace key. Just amazing! But, I just can't maneuver with those things at all. Sometimes, Kate, when I read your posts you just make me smile and shake my head and think, "well, Bless her heart."

Been clipped, too, Val

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Valkyrie

Fank Oo!

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Kate Dicey

I know that feeling, too. I like to keep my nails the length you describe your 'new ones', Kate. When I was assaulted by a student, my left wrist was crushed(I am an all-together lefty) and in a cast for two months after two surgeries, a friend came by one day and said, "Let me do your nails." Oh, how wonderful it felt, then as soon as I could drive, she introduced me to her manicurist, who had told her how to do them that day. She had never done nails for anyone before but told the lady she felt so bad for me with those ugly nails, she had to do something. Those were two were the first to get gifts made on the sewing machine when I was able to sew again, I made each of them a nice shirt. Emily

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Emily

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