[Nfb-krafters-korner] Prodigy Lance & Lancett Question.

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I'm not diabetic, but have often wondered how repeatedly lancing a fingertip 
impacts braille reading sensitivity.  I have the hardest time building my 
speed in braille and tend to watch out not to injure my fingers in case I 
need to depend on braille at some point.
My vision is bad enough that I should be using braille more now, but again, 
it is so painfully slow.  I know the symbols well as I learned them early 
but never practiced reading as most my life I had enough vision to get by 
reading print.
I was temporarily in need of testing blood sugar after a medical emergency a 
few years ago and they thought I might turn diabetic, but after I got out of 
the hospital things stabilized. But when I was testing I went out of my way 
to poke noncritical fingers like a thumb or ring finger etc. Middle and 
index fingers on both hands were off limits. Once when I was in the hospital 
a volunteer came in and asked if I wanted my fingernails cut.  I agreed 
hesitantly as I hate when other people cut my nails. But she needed 
something useful to do so I agreed. No sooner did she get to my right index 
finger, she misplaced the scissor and whacked off the tip of my finger.
I was horrified, not from the pain, but wondering if that was going to 
further slow my braille down.  But in time, amazingly, the missing skin 
actually grew back.
The abilities of the human body never cease to amaze me.
Happy crafting.
--le



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Prodigy Lance & Lancett Question.


This is a problem as with all my blood testing the finger tips are not as
touch sensible.So I try to rotate between 3 fingers on each hand[pinky, ring
and  middle] forget the right pointer as with knitting finger defintely has
a tougher  touch.  But I get things done.  Maybe that is why I did not get
into  the small bead stuff, but liked working with a little larger bead.

Joyce
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