| With recent surgery on the middle and index fingers on one hand, it quickly became obvious that doing things that are normally second-nature become difficult at best, impossible at worst. I learned to do some of them with my ring finger and thumb instead. Tying shoes was one of them. |
The next challenge was flossing my teeth. I wind the floss around my index finger of each hand — pretty tightly — and that didn’t sit well over the quite tender, stitched-up finger on my left hand. I was able to get by with a little help from my friends: dental picks. |
Have you tried to open a high-density polyethylene bag like those inside cereal boxes? (I often resort to scissors even when all of my fingers are fully functional.) Fuhgeddaboudit with two fingers out of commission! Heck, I could barely open a GLAD® FLEX’NSEAL sandwich bag, or a pack of nabs! |