Winter - I shake my fist at you!

Terri Bischoff

Oh, the perils of winter in the upper Midwest. I’m typing this one handed, left-handed, because my right arm is in a sling. Ice 1, Terri 0.

But hey, I’m an editor, I can just read all day. Except I need to take notes. I’d say now is the time to brush up on my left hand writing skills! My biggest worry is how exactly am I going to refill my coffee cup? I drink a lot of coffee. Ugh. Just this morning I was giving myself a pep talk about buckling down and powering through this week. Looks like I will have to shift a few things around. But hey, accidents are a part of life and maybe I need to slow down and examine what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, and if I should be. I can see this as a good thing. Only positive thinking in 2017 – let’s do this!!

PS – working a mouse left-handed is really hard!

Comments

[Edith Maxwell]

I'm so sorry to hear this, Terri! Ice is a peril. I hope you heal up easily and soon.

I will say after I blew out my "tennis elbow" tendon from picking up a hefty great-niece's baby carrier fourteen years ago, I taught myself to mouse left-handed. And now it comes in very handy whenever one wrist or shoulder or whatever is stressed, I can switch. So hang in there. It's awkward at first. Not sure I could master left-handed cursive or even printing so easily...

[Lynne Patrick]

And typing one-handed is s-o-o-o sl-o-o-o-w. More power to you for managing to post this week, Terri. Hope it feels better soon.