Continuing with the focus on things that people don’t realize I can no longer do.
I miss cutting my own nails.
I thought of this “One of things that I miss” last Sunday evening when Sean took a shower and I heard him in the bathroom, shave after the shower and cut his own finger nails.
The ring finger nail on my right hand broke on November 26. I spent Thanksgiving with a wonky nail because I couldn’t cut all of my nails by myself. My vision and hand-eye coronation will no longer allow me to do this.
I used to bite my nails when I was a little girl and I probably stopped around 11 or 12. I don’t wear nail polish and whenever one of my nails breaks, I just cut them all, otherwise, I just let them grow. They get pretty long sometimes but it doesn’t matter to me that I have to cut them when one breaks.
I remember one day, when I was still teaching English, I grabbed the nail cutters I ne morning and took them to school with me. On my prep period, I sat at the table in the teacher’s lounge and cut all of my nails. My friend and former colleague, Jaci, came in and laughed at me because I was using baby nail cutters to cut my nails. Sean had to be eight or nine back then but I still had the cutters because I use them to cut my own nails.
My hands are small so it works for me. But now, because I no longer have the hand-eye Coordination needed to cut my nails without hurting myself, I just we did with my wonky nail. My Mom was able to cut my nails I think December 1st or 2nd.
Now, my nails are all even and I told my Mom that I needed a, “Lady in Waiting” whose sole job it was to cut my nails whenever I needed them cut. After I told her that, I realized that I WAS the, “Lady in Waiting” because I was waiting to get my nails cut.
I think I will have to hire a, “Nail cutter” because Sean does not want to do that and my Mom is pretty busy. I will have to put an ad out and hope that I find someone who works for free because I can’t afford to buy anyone! I guess I will just have to remain being the, “Lady in Waiting.”