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

[Marianne Denning]

I am a rehabilitation teacher and I recommend that my diabetic clients do 
not prick their braille reading fingers for the exact reason you bring up. 
I think we need to protect our finger tips as much as possible for increased 
sensativity.  I have a repeated dream where I can no longer read braille 
because I can't feel it.  I guess that is a nightmare for me.

Marianne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Prodigy Lance & Lancett Question.


> 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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