What tasks would you find difficult to do if you were to lose one hand?

Bathing. I cut my hand pretty bad the other day, so I have a good idea. It's very easy to soap the other armpit, but it's quite tricky to soap the armpit that corresponds to the hand you are holding the soap in. Washing your remaining hand is tricky too.

Buttoning my jeans. Or pulling my pants off to use the restroom. I can do a lot of things with one hand (when I hold my fat baby, I can do alot with my other hand) But I find those difficult when I only can use one hand.

Flying with only one hand would be pretty difficult, I think.

Most everything I'd say.

wash my hair.

dressing, washing the dishes, doing anything! i wouldn't be able to cope.

Climbing trees, masturbating, beating my children and making meatballs.

I've broken my arm before and I'm assuming it'd be similar to that. There are so many things that were hard to do. The main things that come to mind are tying my shoes, showering, buttoning and zipping my jeans, changing a baby's diaper, driving (especially since I drive a stick), washing dishes. If it were my right hand, writing and masturbation would be difficult until I were able to adapt to using my left.

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Great minds.

tend to babies.

ya, one hand if that's all you have would just have to do, I suppose.

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Yea, that would suck if it was my left hand.

driving - I have a stick, typing on the computer - but, I think I could adapt, showering, cooking, using the ATV would be too hard (so I'd have to stop mowing/plowing). um...

Just using the computer would be much more difficult. Carrying things. Gardening. Driving, if it were my right hand. Lifting weights. Buttoning things.

I guess I'd have to learn to use my left hand.

How devastating! I can't imagine...I admire those that can function without all their limbs...bless them

Everything. It would certainly be a challenge to continue the work I do, a Bodytherapist, but I am sure I could figure out how to compensate.

aww crap, I thought you meant like flapping your arms...

Depends on which hand really. Tie my shoe, crochet, type, use my record vacuum cleaner, drive, put my records in their covers and sleeves.....that's all I can think of.

Praying with my hands together.
Shoveling snow.
Driving a standard car.
Pretending I'm a moose by using both my hands as antlers.
Typing
The list goes on and on and on.

Writing..Doesn't matter which hand..left or right..And no, I'm not ampidexterous.

It's difficult to get much altitude that way even with both hands. I've tried, it just doesn't work. I've had better luck with airplanes.

Everything initially, then I'd adapt.

Tie my shoes

would depend on which hand it was. if it was my dominant hand, i would have trouble with a lot of things including writing/signing, eating, typing, throwing, playing almost any sport with a ball. i'm sure i could learn to do everything with my non dominant hand but it would take much longer. i played softball with a woman who only had one hand, it was congenital. she was a fantastic player.

me too... but I tend to barf in airplanes, body-air flying settles my stomach

Note to creator...
I was the first just now to think of 'clapping'!

I've had three people barf in my plane so far. Maybe I should chuck them out the door to help settle them down.

I tell ya, the last guy was pretty good about it. He said he felt something hit the back of his neck when I spewed out the window. I figured it was his fault for not having little barf bags handy.
I warned him I get green around the gills, I don't think he thought I would really do it. I did help him clean out the plane anyway.

The inspiration for this survey was that I had cut my finger pretty badly and had to avoid using that hand in many tasks. It was very difficult. I thought about all of the things I wouldn't be able to do with use of just one hand.

It's a good survey.
I have often thought (due to a Dick VanDyke episode) how difficult tasks would be without thumbs.

Many of them. Typing comes to mind first. Also cooking. And driving stick. Cleaning. Gardening. Knitting. Sewing. Crocheting. Washing my hair. Getting dressed. Having two hands really is useful!

Which hand? Loosing my right hand would make writing hell of a lot harder than loosing my left hand.

Opening a jar, driving a stick, riding a motorcycle, switching hands when I take notes, typing quickly, playing instruments, shooting rifles, hugging both of my sons at the same time, clearing jams on pistols, suturing people and patting my head while rubbing my tummy.

Being a male I will leave that up to your imagination. (grin)

Washing the dishes. Tying my shoelaces. Changing nappies. Playing pool. Anything related to horses. Pouring pints of lager. Unscrewing jars and bottles. Typing. Putting on eye-liner. Buttoning a shirt or doing up a zip on an awkward item of clothing. Having doggy sex. Getting through doors whilst carrying luggage. Pushing a pushchair.

I just pray I never do
and cleaning the house and making up my bed you need to hands
Working at my part time job you need two hands working in the warehouse and doing candy orders
it would be very hard and difficult with one hand

Well, it would be a lot harder to fondle my man's balls while giving him a hand job.

Uh, everything that requires using both hands

This is a good survey... and it reminds me of my real estate agent. She's in her mid-twenties, and about five years ago one winter she was driving her grandmother to town for a doctor's appointment. They were in a little two-seater pick-up. She hit some black ice and they slid sideways in front of an approaching logging truck. They had to cut her out of the wreckage, and she has burn scars all over her body from the fire... one that stands out is on her wrist from where they had to peel her watch off her skin after it melted. She was in a coma for a few days, and the doctors gave her a 2% chance to live. Her family gathered... they had signed the paperwork to take her off life support and let her go. One of the nurses commented that her color was better, and as a last-ditch effort, the doctor leaned over her and said, "If you can hear me, hold up two fingers!" She very weakly lifted two fingers and everyone freaked. They installed a shunt for her brain injury, and she had to have surgeries on her left arm... in the wreck, all of the nerves except one were severed. She still doesn't have use of her left arm, and part of her face doesn't work right... she looks like a stroke victim. But instead of collecting disability, she went to school and is now working full-time. She has a great sense of humor.

opening doors, driving, playing ping-pong -- no

typing, writing computer programs or working on computers in general, which is only the blood and soul of my entertainment and my future livelihood -- yes

Too........much...........information!

That's what made it so damn funny... and it was the first thing I thought of.

Stories like that make me wonder how I can even for one moment feel sorry for myself. I wonder if I would have such will in the same situation.

My ex, Ben, got shot in the chest several years ago. It caused a lot of nerve damage to his right arm and hand. They said he'd never be able to use it. He still has some problems and there are things he can't do, but he was determined not to just give up. Now, unless you look closely, you don't even notice it. He gets pissed off about it sometimes and people can be so rude. He doesn't have as much strength in his right hand and hand shaking is a big southern thing. Men will comment to him about how weak he is. He's still stronger than me, though.

everything

Me too.

How rude that people comment on the strength of a handshake! While the strength of a handshake does leave an impression on me, I'd never say anything. Maybe he should start presenting his left hand to shake.

It is rude. I don't get it. I guess it's a man thing or something. It bothers him, but he doesn't try to explain it. If he tried to shake with his left hand, there'd probably be comments about that, too. Men are strange creatures.

> Men are strange
> creatures.

You said it all right there, sweetie!

Everything.

Type. Play piano. Cook. Read. Do arts & crafts.

mmmmmmmm unscrewing a bottle? lifting bulky items.........

The strength of a hand shake means nothing to me really........... its when you shake a persons hand and its "sweaty" *races for the Dial hand sanitizer"

Things that involve two hands

Anything that involves using both hands and that's a whole lot of things.

Shoelaces, typing, operating heavy machinery...

Doing my job and bathing/grooming my cats would be the most difficult.