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It happened because I’ve had shoulder pain from strains, off and on, for years. But lately it’s been bad, bad, bad.<\/p>\n
An MRI revealed a tear, and yesterday I learned from an orthopedic specialist that I have a frozen shoulder.<\/p>\n
My range of motion is constrained by tight ligaments, and the pain limits movement too.<\/p>\n
So I’ve whined while putting on my clothes, and had to ask\u00a0Tom to put on my left shirt sleeve and jacket sleeve for me, because I could not move my arm back far enough.<\/p>\n
And then yesterday, I stopped as I was picking up my jacket and said, “Geeeeeeeeez.”<\/p>\n
I’m right-handed. The frozen shoulder is the left one. Out of life-long habit, I had been putting on the right sleeve of my shirts and jackets first. This forces me to stretch the left arm back to put it in the sleeve.<\/p>\n
All I had to do was put on the left sleeve first.<\/p>\n
It’s one of those things that seems terribly\u00a0obvious after the fact. But habit so engrained is mentally off the table.<\/p>\n
I have a couple of other things I do with my left hand. I deal cards left-handed because the person who taught me was a lefty. \u00a0I open jars and bottles with my left hand, for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n
I switched the jar-opening to my right today, and suddenly found it much easier to open them. My right arm and hand are stronger – duh!<\/p>\n
This is why in art classes the instructors will have you draw a bit with your non-dominant hand. It breaks you out of lifelong habits of thinking and acting.<\/p>\n
Maybe now my art will improve.<\/p>\n
At least I don’t need help putting on my jacket anymore.<\/p>\n
Today’s penny is a 2014, for the year I injured the left shoulder splitting wood.<\/p>\n
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