You separated me from most of the animal kingdom, my opposable thumbs.
Open a shampoo bottle
Pick up a fork
Pull up the covers
Turn the page
Text a friend
Mute the TV
You are slipping away from me.
Squeeze the toothpaste
Put in earbuds
Unlock the car
So clumsy. Atrophy is winning.
Shuffle the cards
Twist a Q-Tip
Write a note
Impossible.
Oh wonderful opposable thumbs, how I miss you.
Shelly Hoover 
December 8, 2016 at 11:06 pm
Well doc its always good to read your stuff ( being a red neck learner) wouldn’t want you to think I would use dissertation while living here in the southland. You are special to us so keep on plugging away at this monster. Clumsy and atrophy are two words that now run together when accepting the next progression level we enter. Don’t like it, do not want to accept it but its where we are. So many little things that we took for granted right up to the moment of acceptance. But darn it lady did you ever believe you were this strong and that there were so many wonderful loving people we would have never met nor experience their love.
Still love you even though you are on the wrong coast Don
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