Hand-Hell - Another daily indignity, the dreaded scissors

Greetings, Readers,

Ah, scissors. When they work well, they make their task a joy to perform, as long as you have fingertips! I'm right handed, but it is easy to switch to left handed for most tasks, but that's not the case for scissors. Scissors are chiral - 'handed', so it's hard to use my regular scissors as left handed ones.

I have arthritis, and it hurts a tad when using scissors to cut something hearty, say a thick fabric like velvet.

A touch of arthritis is a gentle reminder of graceful aging. Hitting the sweet spot on an open ulcer right on a raw nerve delivers a searing come-to-jesus pain, difficult to understand unless you are close enough to hear the banshee scream it elicits.

The blessing of the thick crusty areas which form around the areas fully lacking the epidermis (that's 5 full layers gone, down to the dermis) is protection. Crusty bits keep the tender bits from hurting, until it doesn't any more and it just hurts like holy hell.

Somehow, I feel a little better by having this place to complain. Does anybody hate the scissors like I do? I'd love to hear some scissor-hating stories from fellow denizens in Hand-Hell.

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