Fingers

I find that, as I’m growing down, I’m going into transitional phases where things change and I have to review and revise what I can do and can’t do, and all sorts of other things in between. This get tricky when the abilities I’m losing are a deep part of my identity.

So, as a writer and communicator I’ve spent bazillions of hours, days and weeks banging away on typewriter and computer keyboards. But my fingers are losing their accuracy, and I can’t do it like I used to be able to.

It’s called peripheral neuropathy in medical speak – loss of feeling and coordination in the fingers and feet. It’s a funny sensation of non-feeling where feeling ought to be, a bit like music that’s turned down too low.

I’m getting an impression my blogs are too long for some readers – they’re a 15-minute read – and they tend to stretch synapses quite a bit.

So I think I’m going to do more podcasts. Or, in some cases, both.

Here’s my last blog, about pain, as a podcast, and you can find it on Spotify, Google and Apple Podcasts, such as here:

or on my podcast page here:

https://palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

And you’re welcome to lend it your ears!

Love, Palden

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Author: Palden Jenkins

A pedigree Sixties veteran with a track record. Supposedly retired with bone marrow cancer, I'm still at it. Innovative projects, inspiring ideas, yardages of verbiage, copious photos, lots of audio.

2 thoughts on “Fingers”

  1. Hello Sian. I hope to do both a blog and a pod, when I can. Thing is, media are spreading and varying. Podcasts are popular with people who are either busy, wanting to listen while doing something else (like radio), or less able to read a ‘long read’ (which my blogs are). But writing, formerly a natural and easy thing for me, is getting more difficult. We shall see how it goes…

    But to hear a podcast, just go to my podcast page at http://www.palden.co.uk/podcasts.html, look for the latest podcast on the top right and click that little triangle that represents ‘play’.

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  2. Hello you Just to say love you, keep motoring etc. Very sad about Pain and Fingers. Very challenging. And it will be a challenge to me to move from reading to listening. Not even sure I know how to do it since I am in the Ark technologically, compounded by a very risk averse attitude to t’internet. Look after yourself. Get the looking after you need Blessings Xxxx Sian

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