This is NOT a daily occurrence, but it happens from time to time. Let me ‘splain ya:
My sleep schedule is completely off and I don’t wake up and get out of bed till about 2 o’clock in the afternoon. So 2 o’clock is my morning and I’m telling you that for purposes of this story:
For breakfast now, I drink a nutrition shake. I drink that shake after I have taken my morning vitamins on an empty stomach. My Mom will hand me a nutrition shake in my left hand and she is coming out of the kitchen because I am left-handed and that’s the closest one to her as she comes into the living room. I shake the nutrition shake with my left hand and use my right hand to twist off the cap.
That is except for THIS morning (which is really the afternoon) because my right hand could NOT twist the cap of a nutrition shake off the container. I switched hands that I was holding the container in and tried to twist the cap off with my left hand because that hand is stronger. It was not happening! I think it took me three or four times from each hand to try to get the shake open.
So, this morning, my hand strength was nonexistent. I am squeezing my therapy putty every day and it still feels like clay rather than Play-Doh. In about April or May it will feel like Play-Doh and then I will throw it out and get a new container of putty on June 18. This is a little bit concerning to me because my disease is progressing every day and I wonder when my abilities will be completely gone but I’m not there… yet.