Thanks Doug. It is trigger finger, where the tendon catches on the tunnel of
tissues that hold it down as it passes over a joint (knuckle) in the finger.
I have been mishandling the mouse ever since I started with computers a very
long time ago! It has at last cqaught up with me. I also type like I am
still using a rusty manual typewriter - each finger hammers the letters on
my laptop. Simple injury if you're anything but a writer or journo or
somesuch.
Hopalong was my hero for some time, replaced by the Man with the Donkey, an
Aussie hero of wartime - a medico who would go in and out of danger carrying
the wounded on the back of a donkey. He was a much more deserving hero!
Andrew
2009/11/25 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> I like the contrast of USAmerican pop culture vs that 'weathered jarrah
> fence', Andrew.
>
> But if there's no gain, what exactly was it? I first thought H1N1 vaccine,
> but...?
>
> Doug
>
> On 25-Nov-09, at 3:06 AM, andrew burke wrote:
>
> My finger catches around a word
>> and the medicos call it Trigger Finger.
>> It reminds me of
>> the back lanes of my youth, drawing against
>> the fastest cats on the weathered jarrah fence
>> in my twin-holstered black faux-leather
>> Hopalong Cassidy outfit. Then
>> they stick the needle in
>> and I know I am mortally wounded,
>> no poems under my hat tonight.
>> Cats in the back lanes rest easy,
>> words jeer in my head,
>> my sentence extended.
>> No gain in this pain
>> again and again.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
>>
>> 'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie
>> bookshops
>> - list at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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>
> Good taste is as tiring as good company.
>
> Francis Picabia
>
--
Andrew
'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie bookshops
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