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| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Oct 04 08:43PM -0700 On 10/04/2020 08:01 PM, Derald wrote: > For the morbidly (and pointlessly) curious among you: I am > recovering from not just one but two strokes that have seriously > degraded my balance and coordination. That sucks badly. How long ago did this happen? > I'm hoping that regular sessions > of trying to put the pegs into the holes might be beneficial. > Thanks, Googling turned up nothing useful. Got any woodworking friends? I suspect that such a thing would be fairly easy to make. Use readily-available "dowel pins" to insert in the holes. Another possibility -- punch holes in lightweight cardboard and thread shoelaces through the holes. Not my idea, but cheap and easy to construct. OTOH, I suspect that typing is even better and produces something useful -- like MCFL posts, for instance. Or knitting. Large short needles and fat soft yarn. Requires coordination of a number of movements, but none of them really complex or difficult and provides good finger exercise. Good luck... -- Cheers, Bev "Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them." -- Lionel |
| Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Oct 05 10:15AM -0700 On 10/4/2020 8:43 PM, The Real Bev wrote: > -- like MCFL posts, for instance. Or knitting. Large short needles and > fat soft yarn. Requires coordination of a number of movements, but none > of them really complex or difficult and provides good finger exercise. There are probably thing like that, on a larger scale, at toy stores. Tools, like router or drill bits often come packaged in a plastic holder along that line. Anything like that is the garage? I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. I wish you well. May Ullr help in your recovery. |
| bje@ripco.com: Oct 05 05:57PM > tees) may be inserted,the point of which is unknown to me. My > questions, thenn are: What is such a device called (if it even has a > generic name) and where may at least one be purchased? You mean one of these things? https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joenord.com%2Fpuzzles%2Fpeggame%2F&psig=AOvVaw19CpCehunjq9H9ylDKQm9B&ust=1602006921914000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKC7if6CnuwCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAG Else just google for "peg board games". -bruce bje@ripco.com |
| ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Oct 05 11:40AM -0700 On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 12:15:55 PM UTC-5, Bob F wrote: > >> recovering from not just one but two strokes that have seriously > >> degraded my balance and coordination. > There are probably thing like that, on a larger scale, at toy stores. Ooooh, sorry to hear of the health problem. Here's hoping you have a speedy recovery!! What you are describing is a pegboard game. If you ever get to go to a Cracker Barrel restaurant you will see these on every table. It's to keep you and/or the kids occupied while awaiting your food to be served. The ones they have on the table all have little sayings telling you how smart or how dumb you are by the number of pegs you have left at the end of the game. Of course, the object of the game is to jump each peg in a row, and once jumped the peg is removed. https://i.postimg.cc/RZsBxJgz/Peg-Board.jpg If there are Cracker Barrel restaurants where you live I'm pretty sure this game can be bought there. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Oct 05 01:34PM -0700 On 10/05/2020 12:48 PM, Derald wrote: > The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote: >>That sucks badly. How long ago did this happen? > yes, it do. August '18 and January this year Improvement happens WAYYYYY too slow :-( The good thing is that it actually happens! > and remove various sizes of nuts to–from bolts. I unclip and relocate > clothespins. "Progress" has been slow; especially so since the second > "event". A friend's mom had a stroke. Fortunately she was a person who followed the PT guru's instructions religiously and her son was amazed at her improvement. The pathways reform... > I another life, I was an accomplished pianist but haven't, so far, > develiped the nerve (or the will) to confront a keyboard recently. No hurry, I think. That requires a lot more coordination than NORMAL people have! > Hell, I'm just trying to supress the tremors enough to work on the car. > You should see me tying shoes :) You work on your car now? Wow. That seems a lot harder than the pegboard thing... -- Cheers, Bev "I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade." -- Clarice |
| Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Oct 05 02:37PM -0700 On 10/4/2020 8:01 PM, Derald wrote: > degraded my balance and coordination. I'm hoping that regular sessions > of trying to put the pegs into the holes might be beneficial. > Thanks, If you want some good reading about how the brain rebuilds pathways, I highly recommend the books "The Brain That Changes Itself" and "The Brain's Way of Healing" by Norman Doidge. I found them both fascinating. IIRC, the second book had more about stroke damage recovery. |
| Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Oct 05 05:57PM -0700 On 10/5/2020 4:33 PM, Derald wrote: > therapy when no one could explain the perceived benefits of 15 minutes > of not particularly strenuous exercise once weekly. The occupational > therapist bailed at the start of the covid-19 paranoia. I was doing a PT "silly putty" exercise as I read this post, working my left thumb out to strengthen it and to try to reverse the arthritis in it that made it next to useless. I couldn't ever use a fingernail clipper with it before the PT started. Now no pain at all from that but still pretty limited, but slowly getting better. Sometimes, PT's are way more helpful than doctors. I wondered about the PT for the thump at the beginning, which was mostly manual manipulation of my thumb and a period of small weight exercise of my wrists and arms, but saw significant improvement within a few weeks of twice/week. I also have had a pacemaker for a couple decades, but mine is only for emergencies. It hardly ever fires. I've been exercising aerobically (HR 120-140) for 40-90 minutes most days since the shutdowns began, to make up for the other activities I cannot do now. Love those free exercise machines from freecycle and Craigslist. |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Oct 04 11:01PM -0400 Picture a flat piece of wood trimmed into an equilateral triangle, say, 5 or 6 inches on a side (something at least easy to handle) and drilled on one side with a number of small evenly spaced blind holes in parallel rows into which small pegs (frequently golfball tees) may be inserted,the point of which is unknown to me. My questions, thenn are: What is such a device called (if it even has a generic name) and where may at least one be purchased? For the morbidly (and pointlessly) curious among you: I am recovering from not just one but two strokes that have seriously degraded my balance and coordination. I'm hoping that regular sessions of trying to put the pegs into the holes might be beneficial. Thanks, -- Derald Peninsular FL, USA USDA 9b |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Oct 05 03:21PM -0400 >You mean one of these things? >https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joenord.com%2Fpuzzles%2Fpeggame%2F&psig=AOvVaw19CpCehunjq9H9ylDKQm9B&ust=1602006921914000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKC7if6CnuwCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAG >Else just google for "peg board games". Yeah one of those things. Which part addresses either of my questions? -- Derald ...the only traits that are passed down in your family are perversity, ego-centrism, laziness and sociopathic tendencies. --Lynn Barton, Filedheacht Music School, East Bridgewater, MA to Derald, July, 2016 |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Oct 05 03:48PM -0400 >That sucks badly. How long ago did this happen? yes, it do. August '18 and January this year >> Thanks, >Googling turned up nothing useful. Got any woodworking friends? I >suspect that such a thing would be fairly easy to make. Yes. In better days I could have made one in minutes. >-- like MCFL posts, for instance. Or knitting. Large short needles and >fat soft yarn. Requires coordination of a number of movements, but none >of them really complex or difficult and provides good finger exercise. Thanks for the tips. Presently, I sort coins and small pins from one of those pill dispenser dealies. I type, after a fashion. I fasten and remove various sizes of nuts to–from bolts. I unclip and relocate clothespins. "Progress" has been slow; especially so since the second "event". I another life, I was an accomplished pianist but haven't, so far, develiped the nerve (or the will) to confront a keyboard recently. Hell, I'm just trying to supress the tremors enough to work on the car. You should see me tying shoes :) -- Derald ...the only traits that are passed down in your family are perversity, ego-centrism, laziness and sociopathic tendencies. --Lynn Barton, Filedheacht Music School, East Bridgewater, MA to Derald, July, 2016 |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Oct 05 04:06PM -0400 >There are probably thing like that, on a larger scale, at toy stores. I looked in the local stores with no success. >Tools, like router or drill bits often come packaged in a plastic holder > along that line. Anything like that is the garage? Yes I do, actually. I have a drill index which acommodates many smaller sizes and that should work well. -- Derald don't ask _me_ how the posts got out of sequence! |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Oct 05 07:33PM -0400 >A friend's mom had a stroke. Fortunately she was a person who followed >the PT guru's instructions religiously and her son was amazed at her >improvement. The pathways reform... the physical therapy was basically time wasted. Occupational therapy was productive but cut short, the result of covid-19 paranoia. I still have and use informative and instructional materials from that encounter. >> You should see me tying shoes :) >You work on your car now? Wow. That seems a lot harder than the >pegboard thing... I work on the car now, after a fashion. In younger days, I'd tackle major automotive repairs but nowadays I'm limited to routine maintenance chores (oil and filter changes,brake pads, drive belt,etc.). Wife&I drive a 31 y/o midsize Mercedes-Benz that I hope to make last until electric vehicles are more practical, if not ubiquitous. Fortunately we have two well-qualified repair shops within just a few miles. -- Derald ...the only traits that are passed down in your family are perversity, ego-centrism, laziness and sociopathic tendencies. --Lynn Barton, Filedheacht Music School, East Bridgewater, MA to Derald, July, 2016 |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Oct 05 07:33PM -0400 >highly recommend the books "The Brain That Changes Itself" and "The >Brain's Way of Healing" by Norman Doidge. I found them both fascinating. >IIRC, the second book had more about stroke damage recovery. Thanks for the recommendaton. I shall look for them in the local libraries. I exercise daily to maintain some semblance of cardiovascular fitness (although I already host a ICD pacemaker/defibrillator) and muscle mass. I stopped the physical therapy when no one could explain the perceived benefits of 15 minutes of not particularly strenuous exercise once weekly. The occupational therapist bailed at the start of the covid-19 paranoia. -- Derald |
| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Oct 05 03:51PM -0700 > On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 5:35:15 PM UTC-7, gggg...@gmail.com wrote: > > https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/may/06/bernie-sanders/sanders-1-out-5-cant-afford-prescription-drugs/ > https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/is-big-pharma-more-interested-in-profiteering-than-protecting-us-from-coronavirus/ https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/sep/21/drug-costs-getting-worse-patients-say/ |
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