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eftychia at 10:31pm on 2004-03-17Washing my hands after dealing with cat box and trash, I noticed spots that stung from the soap. Looking down, I see where I've bled a little at the base of the nail on two fingers. This means that the last time I had my nails done I got them a millimeter or half a millimeter too short. Whoops. I noticed something felt different when I was playing, but at the time I didn't notice what.
Not as bad as the time Ray, my second roommate, the paranoid one borrowed my guitar while we were someplace away from our dorm room, and neither of us had guitar picks handy -- he nearly always used a pick, I almost never did; so he didn't have the nails for it already. He didn't notice when he bled either, and he actually left a fine spatter of blood flecks all over my pickguard. He also didn't stop when we pointed it out to him. This tonight is just barely enough to notice; I've never gone to Ray's extreme, but I've done worse than tonight's damage.
Half a millimeter. Feh. I was playing louder tonight than I did on Saturday, I guess. My fingers being warm enough to move properly probably has something to do with that. And the fact that we were unamplified tonight. *shrug* Annoying, but to put it in perspective, it'll be completely healed in thirty or forty hours, and too little to particularly notice a lot sooner than that. It's just the awareness of an error that annoys me.
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We were told to put a drop of crazy glue on where it is bleeding. It acts like a "Liquid Bandage"
It's not too hard
There's a thing called "New Skin" that is more flexible than Crazy Glue. Not as flexible as I'd like, but I like it better for skin scuffs. Crazy Glue is better for nails, true. Then there are always the insidious fingercots.
I understand how D'Glenn gets her digits bloodied, (Damn, that girl can play) but for massage it's not necessary to work them hard enough to hurt them, nor cut them short enough to bloody them. Trust me on years, or ask D'Glenn. I have at least 2000 hrs under my belt, most of it nasty. Don't work for LizArden.
You are right about the importance of your hands. Your nails have to be short in order for the fingers to contact the client's body softly and carefully. And then, if necessary, dig in without gouging. And it is important to make sure of the integrity of your skin. I'm glad that the next bunch of massage therapists is coming along well.
Do you know the rules for sleeping that keep carpal tunnel syndrome at bay? If you do, they work. If you don't, I can explain it. And I've even got some truly wild but effective stomach exercises for back pain. They worked on me. Forgive me for lecturing, but I care. A character flaw.
Do you do Shiatsu? AKA Acupressure. 364 points, and all that. And those damned strange flows. I understand them but they're confusing at times. Muscles are are so easy by comparison.
Bonne chance, mon amie.
Re: It's not too hard
Yes, I agree with you regarding dGlenn's playing I have known Glenn for a very long time and seen him play.