Daddybang wrote:pomemax wrote:I am the same Die Judicii to the point if I have to do a right handed task with the left it is near on impossible.
A few years ago I badly injured 2 fingers on the right hand it was bandaged up in a ball for about a month first week going to the bathroom was a learning curve in more ways than one .
If id have read this comment four weeks ago I would've thought "what's so hard about it"
After breaking my hand three weeks ago I now couldn't agree more it's bloody difficult to use the off hand in the bathroom!!!!
Sometimes it can be a blessing in disguise DB.
When I was 13 I was asked by a family friend's daughter if I wanted to go riding.
The kids in this family had been virtually raised on horseback and I had never ridden anything but motorbikes, but there was no way I was admitting to a
girl that I couldn't ride a horse.
I was given a wild eyed monster that picked me for a noob straight up and took off like a rocket.
My bareback riding career last about 30 seconds until he made a sudden 45° turn at full gallop and we parted company.
Not knowing how to fall, I instinctively put my hands out to"save" myself.
I shattered 3in of both ulnar and radius just above the wrist, broke my wrist, right thumb, and one end of the radius cut my thumb tendon. I also ended up with a mouthful of grass and dirt and several loosened teeth.
After surgery putting in plates and screws and such and 3 weeks in hospital I spent nearly 8 months with plaster from my middle knuckles to just below my armpit.
As a result I ended up functionally ambidextrous, which was quite useful for many years.
Until getting hit by a semi in the 90s damaged my right frontal lobe and buggered up my left side movements.
So I probably still couldn't " brush my hair" with my left now, even if I tried