Major Injury. What Can I Do Left Handed?

lette on 28/04/2020 - 08:33
Last edited 28/04/2020 - 16:33 by 1 other user

I've got bicep instability, so total loss of using my right arm for the foreseeable future. Not even able to use wrist fingers for texting etc. I use my right hand usually, so even using a pen is difficult now.

As you can imagine that's pretty boring. I've so far worked out I can remap my switch controller to play sunless sea and animal crossing. I can't think of any easy games ican map for one clumsy hand. I can still use doulingo so my French is going through the roof. Other than those two things I haven't thought of anything entertaining to do other than reading.

If anyone has any advice or ideas I'd love to hear it. This isn't much fun.

TLDR: Can't use dominant arm including my hand at all. What can I do for entertainment?

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  MS Paint on 28/04/2020 - 08:39

  +5

  Can you f@p?

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    lette on 28/04/2020 - 08:41

    +1

    My left hand is sooo clumsy, I'd probably end up breaking something down there haha.

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      John Kimble on 28/04/2020 - 08:55

      Where's there's a will, there's a way

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        pegaxs on 28/04/2020 - 09:30

        +1

        If you lay on your arm till it goes numb, then have a go… I think it’s called “The Stranger”

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          lette on 28/04/2020 - 09:41

          +2

          @pegaxs: New hand. Who dis? XD

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  floppy on 28/04/2020 - 09:05

  +1

  if your into games could just play some games on the computer with your left hand controlling the mouse.
  slower paced games like AoE or even car racing games as i think they only use the arrow keys or WASD.

  or if you had an xbox and this injury looked like it was going to be around for a while could invest in one of those adaptive controllers. its designed for 'Gamers with limited mobility' so could work for you.

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    lette on 28/04/2020 - 09:10

    Once elective surgery is back up I'll need that then 6 months rehab. I do have an Xbox I'll look into it thanks.
    Car racing isn't a terrible idea. I'll see what we've got already on pc.

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      lette on 28/04/2020 - 09:20

      Holy crop! The controller works for switch too and It's relatively cheap
      Buying one now thanks so much for the suggestion!

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  azngamer on 28/04/2020 - 11:33

  JRPG might be a genre of game to get into as they are turn based and do not require quick inputs. There are quite a few Final Fantasy games on Switch and I have been told that FF9 is really good and underrated since it came out at the end of a console life and overshadowed by FF10.

  Some other games on switch I can think of: Octopath Traveller, Mario + Rabbids, Undertale or even Pokemon.

  Alternatively, you could play boardgames with a non-dominant hand or get tabletop simulator on steam to play against people on the internet.

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    lette on 28/04/2020 - 17:18

    Oh my god you're right I totally discounted the jrpg category.
    Already own octopath and a couple others think we may have Mario Rabbids.
    I'll definitely get back to the RPGs and check out e-store for the ff9 and others.
    Good idea a mate n I used to play d n d over the internet and had risk going every so often…wonder what he's up to haha