@mordant

Like you, I had a frozen shoulder and arm. Allergic to opioids, I could not take pain pills. Ice was my friend. Tearing scar tissue was excruciating. I began with walking my fingers up the shower wall, a little higher every day.

The minute I got out of that brace I raced to the YMCA and lifted 40 lbs. Oops. Curled up in pain afterward. The physical therapist chewed me out. But I continued stretching and weightlifting. Iced before and after exercise.

"You are an uncooperative patient," the surgeon and physical therapist said. But 18 months later, "You are one in a million patients," they both said, delighted. I had regained full range of motion and strength.

Here I am 18 months after major surgery in my right shoulder.

Was not aware that right handed equipment , killed lefties . My brother is a south paw , and I do remember the anger he went through , when he was little and trying to learn to write .

@Chevre_Sournois

It didn't occur to me to set down the cup of soup and use both hands.

As if someone would steal it.

@Chevre_Sournois

Even electric mixers are right-handed. The cord comes out of the right side. With my left hand, the cord drags through the ingredients I'm mixing. It's maddening.

I feel silly for not researching this before posting, it’s more like 2500 people every year, but the statistics on this are outdated, the best I can find are articles published 2011-2015. Without any reference to more recent data, I cannot confirm that this is still accurate.

Matchmaker ! Would I ever love to take care of an ideal Feninist Atheist but methinks ye shall lose your matchmaker job ...pink slip on the way written by our expert hiker klutz pea soup customer

@Jolanta

I grew up in a family of six, left-handed, intelligent and hilarious musicians and artists. Married a left-handed artist. Our daughter is left-handed.

Have a lifetime of struggling in a right-handed world. Curled up like shrimp in those stupid, right-handed desks at school. Painful blisters from right-hand sewing shears.

I feel deeply grateful to have left-handed sewing scissors and pinking shears. But even the factory does not sharpen left-handed pinking shears. Only right-handed.

@LiterateHiker See, what I mean you need someone who can sharpen left handed stuff. Proves my point. I married a left handed person, he was lovely until he was not.

@Marcie1974

Thank you, darling. I see the humor in life.

Most of the time I think I'm ridiculous.

@LiterateHiker you are not

@bobwjr Oh yes she is!