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My dexterity has gone walkabout, leaving me behind to bang my thumb on the wall, shake the dining room table when I attempt to lean on it, and otherwise feel clumsy, in ways that I don't think another cup of tea, or even breakfast, will resolve. Typing, fortunately, seems unimpeded--it's feels like a weird proprioceptive thing, not being quite sure of where I am relative to walls, furniture, and other large objects. Typing is enough a matter of learned hand position that I could probably do it on a virtual keyboard, except that I'd miss the auditory feedback of the keys being pressed.
Not good, but I'll manage.
Writing this has helped me analyze the problem, which is actually useful. Keeping my limbs well away from edges of things (when going through doorways, for example) and making a point of looking at what I'm reaching for, instead of using my knowledge of where it is (we've lived here since the late 1980s, and don't rearrange things very often) both help. So does having a handle on the parameters of the problem: that I'm more likely, at the instant, to walk into the doorframe than to drop my mug of tea is useful information.
Not good, but I'll manage.
Writing this has helped me analyze the problem, which is actually useful. Keeping my limbs well away from edges of things (when going through doorways, for example) and making a point of looking at what I'm reaching for, instead of using my knowledge of where it is (we've lived here since the late 1980s, and don't rearrange things very often) both help. So does having a handle on the parameters of the problem: that I'm more likely, at the instant, to walk into the doorframe than to drop my mug of tea is useful information.