Can't seems to stop my case of the 'dropsies' yesterday and today dropping just about everything...........Bloody hands!
I'm so sorry.
Is that part of this, dropping everything? I get so angry at my hands and myself. my co-workers see me throwing things around, or so it appears that way. I thought maybe my hands hurt so I don't grab stuff hard enough. Thanks for sharing your story.
To be honest Michelle, I’m not sure if its connected ot not but I think it is. Some days I have great dificulty getting coins out of my purse, holding on to anything small, and if gripping something like a cloth and wiping machines at work (dialysis unit) I can just sort of throw it at the end of a sweep but I don’t realise. My poor fella has been poked in the eye, nose, cheek more times than I care to think about. He thinks I’m just clumsy but as we’ve only been seeing each other 2 years or so he didn’t know me before PsA. This happens if my hands are bad or not and I used to be able to do such intricate work, silk embroidary, calligraphy …now most days my previously neat handwriting is a scrawl!
What do you do at the dialysis unit? I don't usually hurt my family, unless I'm beating my husband in bed while having nightmares of killing vampires and whatnot. haha. I do hurt myself a lot though. My elbows are always hitting things and it seems like its connected with my dropsies.
I’m an Associate Practitioner - managing the patients care needs within my bays, which includes me ‘needling’ patients (yes they let me near sharp objects!). Love the Job and most of the patients but its hard and I’ve had to reduced my hours…one thing about PsA is its made me a better nurse, I’ve always tried to have empathy with my patients but over the last 5 years or so I realise so much more about living with a chronic condition. I too injure myself, always smacking my elbows, knees, bruising my thighs from bashing into things and OMG stubbing my painful toes!!! What work do you do? 
I've been an RN for over 18 years. My career has taken me to all sorts of specialty areas over the years. My physical decline has taken me on a recent change and I do field nursing now, caring for post op or ill people in their home. I can relate to being especially empathetic with them and I think they appreciate that. When I did my dialysis rotation in school, I kept passing out. haha. Don't know why but that and toe stuff doesn't agree with me. And yes, I'm still dropping things....: )
I used to work with a Home from Hospital care team before I started in Dialysis, very rewarding work…but with health cuts in the late 90’s in the UK we were absorbed into the private sector and we had to repeatedly fight for every bit of care and equipment our patients needed…found I needed to get out and ended up in Dialysis in the good old NHS more by accident than design.
Sometimes that's how it happens! I'm blessed to be working at all between my health and the economy.