Primate.

06 August 08 | 7 comments

I’ve had this sore wrist, now, for.. what? A month or two?

And I’m done. I’m just plain DONE.

I can’t carry anything heavy in my right hand because a sudden twinge of pain can pop up at any point in time and make me either drop something or be in agony.

I can’t sew. I can’t colour. I can hardly open the lock on the front of our house. I can’t grate things (read: zucchini) for long periods of time. I can’t use the whipper-snipper. I can’t sleep without a wrist-guard-splint-thingie on. I can’t brush my teeth or put on deodorant or do anything that requires me to ‘twist’ my wrist at all.

In short, I am feeling kind of useless.

And Coffee tells me not to overuse my wrist and to try to relax it and let him do things for me. But he’s not home for 10 hours of each day, and there are things I want to do and things I need to do.

So yes, finally, I made an appointment with the doctor. And I’m going on Friday.

I am telling you all of this because I want you to know that if the doctor doesn’t fix it immediately, and painlessly, I am going to buy myself a helper monkey. I’m going to name him Zeke. And then I will be the most productive person on the face of this earth.

  1. Annika’s avatar

    Annika on 06 August 08 at 12:26 pm

    Hmm. I had serious wrist troubles a few months after I became a mom. At the time I believed it was due to carrying around a baby all the time, but now I am wondering if it is really a delayed allergy to motherhood, regardless of the children’s age(s).

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  2. Melle’s avatar

    Melle on 06 August 08 at 12:47 pm

    A month or two? Are you on crack? Push it closer to six that you’ve been complaining about it, peanut.

    It’s perhaps been a month or two since I told you to go see a doctor about it. :P

    And I still think a robotic arm would be cooler…

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  3. violet’s avatar

    violet on 06 August 08 at 12:53 pm

    It’s been that long? Really? Huh. Time flies when you’re not able to do anything useful!

    How ’bout a robotic arm AND Zeke?

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    violet on 06 August 08 at 12:54 pm

    ALLERGIC TO CHILDREN! I AM ALLERGIC TO CHILDREN!

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  5. Sylvain’s avatar

    Sylvain on 06 August 08 at 7:55 pm

    Is that the arm you beat the kids with?

    And I’m with Melle, a robotic arm is WAY cooler. Besides, Zeke just doesn’t sound like a monkey name to me.

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  6. Penny’s avatar

    Penny on 06 August 08 at 9:13 pm

    I think you will need the robotic arm to clean up the poo flung by your helper monkey…wait, don’t you already have a helper monkey? You know? The 4YO??

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  7. R.’s avatar

    R. on 07 August 08 at 8:55 pm

    What, you wouldn’t name the helper monkey Mojo?

    Robot arm is cooler. I spend many of my bathroom hours thinking about how I could create nanomachines that replace your bones with titanium/carbon fiber and your muscles with something a bit more… durable.

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