Dexterity

I accidentally ended up at the Circuit City liquidation sale yesterday and on impulse got all the necessities for Guitar Hero. Actually, I'm pretty pleased that the game and two guitar controllers only cost me $44.00. That's leet. Anyway - Gllen and I got it all hooked up and started to play the game. Literally, after 1 SONG his hand started cramping up. Let me point out that Gllen sits in front of computer all day has developed some serious carpal tunnel syndrome. So, the motion of playing the guitar buttons was really causing some pain in his pinkie finger.

I wanted to play the game, so I had to devise a solution: I grabbed two q-tips and a bandaid. Cut the bandaid in half. Created a splint on Gllen's pinkie finger with the q-tips secured by the two pieces of bandaid.

Gllen experimentally wiggled his finger and grinned. We played a song and afterward Gllen exclaims "It worked!"

Two minutes later he started complaining about his thumb hurting. I'll probably have to start giving him hydrocortisone injections in order to get him to play this game.