Did you know how much time I spend hyperextending my fingers

[kaberett]

BECAUSE I DIDN'T. Met ewt for elevenses-slash-lunch yesterday, was loaned a partial exoskeleton (enough thermoplastic ring splits to do one on each digit) that inevitably doesn't fit me quite right, and it is still enough better than not that I am grumblingly conceding I'm going to have to get some of my own.

TODO
previous list
write the damn paper


TADA
breakfast, shower, drugs
sorted out CAB e-mails to look at in more detail
clothes
Regularly:
- tidy desk
- wipe down kitchen surfaces
- green box
- bedsheets
- altar
- vacuum
feed + fridge breadpet
fill out participant data sheet
sketch out a statement of principles on that one topic
reply to E
washing-up
portion and freeze spinach
finish making rice pudding
put away laundry
reply to Cas
read and replied to CAB e-mail
replied to IndeliMessage (adulting list!)
resettled the aloes
initial Regenschirm enquiry (adulting list!)
pack
post the participant data sheet
actually did some work on the paper! (stuck in citation for BCR-2; deleted a lot of irrelevant shit; updated some but not yet all tables)

Comments

[ewt]

Cheapest way to order plastic Oval-8 ring splints is from the manufacturer. Don't use the .com (US) site if you can help it, it charges more.

Metal ones are from Zomile.

Thumbs are hard, but this is probably the cheapest way to get a thermoplastic thumb splint without seeing a hand therapist. You'll need a heat gun or boiling water to shape the plastic bit.

[kaberett]

Thank you!

[ewt]

Of course, the NHS will do you the plastic ones for free, if you can play the waiting-for-a-referral game long enough to get someone to agree that you need them.

The hand therapists I saw at UCLH a few years ago were not that keen on prophylactic splinting, but this was 2008, so things may have changed.

[azurelunatic]

Exoskeleton sounds brilliant.

[vass]

Yay for exoskeleton.

[karen2205]

Yay for you and ewt meeting [experiencing "world too small" error again, 'cos I know you two via different routes]. Hope you can find suitable exoskeleton for you without too much hassle.

No, nuffink wossn't me

[hairyears]

* Whistles tunefully, innocently goes about his business *