Pseudo Left-Handedness..

I shall begin by saying I am a right-handed person.

Today, throughout the day since early in the morning, I tried (experimented) to use only my left hand to do everything, as if my right hand is lifeless. I really mean everything in every sense.

1. I used my left hand to put my wallet and handphone in the pockets on my left. The little bulge at the left side of the backside pocket felt strange, not used to that.

2. I tried driving using my left hand only. I used my left hand to open the car door and even used my left hand to shut the door on the right of the driver’s seat. I used my left hand to insert the key into the keyhole on the right side to start the engine of the car. Sometimes, when I wished to activate the left or right signaling lights, I ended up activating the wipers. Making u-turns was a little challenging. Parking the car can be a little demanding at first. No worries, I was driving really slowly.

3. I carry loads of purchased items with only my left hand.

4. Wearing and taking off t-shirt or pants with only my left hand and keeping my right hand lifeless needs lots of practices. Buttoning jeans took me quite some time.

5. Toilet visits.. I better skipped the details. But I know it is not wise to go to the toilet only when I am urgent. I wouldn’t be fast enough for any big or small businesses.

6. Taking shower. Since only the left hand is active, I guess the right side can be cleaned. The left side? Since the right side is supposed to be lifeless, naturally certain left parts could not be reached at all. Mm..

7. I tried brushing my teeth with my left hand.. Heh… I felt rather strange. I don’t really feel clean and fresh.

8. Signing on the slips when making purchases using credit card… ha… those were the only situations I gave in a little. I mean I can’t possibly sign using my left hand (yet), in case I may be wrongly charged for forgery. Still, I experimented with the idea of having a lifeless right hand. I used my left hand to lift my right hand and placed in directly on the charged slips to be signed, then I scribbled my signature to the best of my ability.

9. When comes to eating noodles, I have yet to learn how to use my left hand to handle the chopsticks. I actually used a fork to eat a bowl wanton noodles. Haha.. Jusy like a little boy.

10. I even tried to type this entry with only my left hand. The mouse was just shifted to the left side.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15 …
ETC..

You may be thinking, just what am I up to? Wu Liao right?

Erm…

I injured my right hand. :o(
I was skating too fast. I was trying out something and was gliding as fast as I could, faster than whatever speed I used to achieve so far. When I was enjoying the speed, I missed a footing and dived face-down, tumbling like a durian dropping from high above. Haha..

My right hand was stretched out just in time to cushion my face from hitting the rough ground. My pair of ET-spec flew quite a distance away. With the momentum, of course I was dragged further. Aiyo.. just imagine my right hand got to shoulder the entire impact when my heavy body was literally slammed down on it, and I was gliding past my earlier-top speed.

I laid motionless for a quite a while. Help wouldn’t have come so soon even if I were to need it, as those gliding with me were quite far behind.

I sat up, only to realize I only suffered a few simple bruises on my right hand. Too good to be true. But reality set in soon. Haha.. I realised I can only lift my right hand half way up. I was/am powerless to lift it higher. The fingers can still feel and move, but there was/is this tightness on the right shoulder (quite swollen) giving a rather strange sensation, render me powerless to lift it up. I can’t even carry anything with my right hand.

So, besides the fingers, my right hand is pretty much lifeless.

Seen a Chinese physician to fix a slight dislocation.
Was also told that the tendon is torn, the muscle is injured.
Took a X-ray only to confirm got a few fractures.
Visited A&E at hospital to be told this kind of fractures will usually heal by themselves. Was given 10 days MC and loads of painkiller and made an appointment to meet a bone specialist soon.

Mm…

I am not complaining.

Actually, I’m feeling very grateful now.

- Instead of multiple injuries (more likely for such a fall), only my right shoulder sacrificed a bit.

- Yes, I know there was a little dislocation, the tendon is torn, the muscle is injured, some obvious fractures. But to think that my body slammed hard on it when I was travelling rather fast… wa… lucky liao lo

- All (no exception) the medical practitioners I met today were all very friendly and patient. We ended up chatting quite comfortably.

- Strangely and luckily, I hardly feel any pain, even till now. I admit I feel rather uncomfortable and a fair bit of numbness and suan-ness, but not that kind of sensation you wanna pumped in painkillers or even to give a scream of any kind. At most I will say gently “Ouch, please don’t touch here.” The ouch is just a natural response to ask people not to get near that sore zone.
Even, when the Chinese Physicians were pulling hard on my shoulder (yes 2 were working on my shoulder) in an attempt to rectify the slight dislocation, I just felt extreme suan-ness and uncomfortable, but was not in pain.
The doc at the A&E said he is a believer of painkillers and gave me 2 types of painkillers to assist me to handle pain of differing degrees. Apparently, these two types of painkillers have side effects and I was given another 2 types of medication just to counter the side effects. Heh… I don’t think I need to try any of those.

- I was told that the waiting time at the A&E of TTSH was horribly long because of the crowd. I was warned that even if I were to register at 4pm, I can prepare to be discharged near midnight. I was even advised that it might be wiser to go to Alexandra or even Changi. Somehow I still ended up at TTSH. The whole experience only took 75 min, despite a sign saying expected waiting time (waiting time to see the doc for consultation only, excluding treatment and actual consultation duration) is 90 min.

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There were some related funny moments.

1. When little N learnt about my injury, he commented “why is uncle Nanzi so clumsy?”
Haha.. he is so right.

2. The Chinese Physician I saw share the same surname as me. Frankly, I was thinking of W (sharing the same surname too) as to when will he be ready to serve as a Chinese Physician? Haha..

3. When the guy taking my x-ray said “Okay, don’t move. I am going to take your x-ray.” … I was actually smiling broadly as if I was being photographed. The guy had to add in a cheeky way “You don’t have to smile. I am only taking your shoulder.” Err…

4. Later, when I need to purchase something, the ladies and aunties at the stores volunteered to assist me to carry my items to my car. Paiseh la… I kindly rejected, acting tough only. Haha..

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Typing so much with only my left hand is tiring.

No matter how tired I must also add : Thanks to all dear pals helping me to kill a fair bit of boredom through exchange of sms-es during my pretty boring waiting and waiting.