I've been struggling with the feeling of helplessness. The palsy, wrist-drop and limited movement of my fingers has kept me from being able to work, to clean my house properly, I crashed my car doing 60 mph (I should NOT have been driving and right now I take a big risk when I go to the bank or a store on my bicycle), and I cannot do the things I love, such as play guitar or piano, or play golf. Just writing is a real challenge. I've never felt so helpless in all my life. But today I did a lot of cleaning, laundry, rearranging, and told myself "If you drop something just pick it back up and try again." So I actually got quite a bit accomplished today and feel good about it. And in one hour I have an appointment with an injury lawyer and I'm going to get another opinion on whether I have a chance filing a lawsuit for malpractice/negligence against the health care facilities that severed my radial nerves in both arms and killed my hands. (If you're wondering how I type, I hover my hands over the keyboard and drop them and hope my pointer fingers hit the right keys.....LOTS of typos have to get fixed.)