On cuts and slackers (after the Chancellor’s speech)

18 January 2010 Post therapy New device to Bend fingers not cooperating crushed hand + wire cube

Stuck hand New splint + wire cube No progress 28/01/10

There was good news and bad news. The good news was that after weeks of inactivity the fingers were beginning to respond under pressure to the inventive therapist’s torture devices. The bad news?  The mess created by the accident would take years to clear up. Continue reading

Of fortune and fists

Post therapy w/H.R. hand plus wire cube + flu 29 December 2009 Pen nearly out

"Make a fist" ..."I am"... 29 December 2009 + flu, pen out

Timing in so many things can make the difference between fortune and failure, opportunities grasped or missed, being ill or well, life and death.  The hand therapist did not hesitate. Continue reading