Painting and Story by Lehan Winifred Ramsay
My mouse is dying, it falls off at the edges. The track is weak, my fingers can move the curse but not make it change anything. I need a new mouse. I order one on the friday and it rings the doorbell on Monday, Mourning. In between I TAP TAP TAP with my thumb, and by the Sunday C5 and 6 are crackling against my pillow. Racing down my arm and back up, I feel like a broken collarbone. The new mouse has a little button on it, up and down so smoothly. If C5 and 6 can speak to my thumb, it seems, my thumb can reply.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Nice painting Lehan… though I’m bit worried by your x-rays… Did you know you’re arm has an extra joint? I hope it’s not a mutation from over-exposure to radiation!
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Your arm doesn’t have that many joints asty? The top one’s the çollar Bone.
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I kinda realised that after I realised that the spine was horizontal, Lehan… but collar bones are much smaller than either the humerus (that’s the bone next to the funny bone!) or the ulna and radius (one of which appears to be missing!)
But I was only kidding anyway; I realise too, that your painting wasn’t intended to be anatomically accurate… I just used it as an excuse for a merry quip; you know me… any excuse for a joke!
🙂
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I like the painting a lot. But it is alarming how tapping with a thumb can bugger up your neck. I recommend Voltarin. Or try Arnica.
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Or Morphine
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Remifentanyl?
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Good idea
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Camomile?
Chicken soup with 100 cloves of garlic?
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Arsenic?
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Just don’t do it?
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fentanyl patches, way to go if you know what I mean
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I had many friends who took THC, for all ailments. They were frequently comatose, so it solved a lot of aches and pains.
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I think I know what you mean but I was stoned and I missed it
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I gave up many, many, many, many years ago.
Most of my contemporaries smoked dope, some with little bits of other stuff mixed, but I decided to give up in my late twenties and never touched it again.
Oh a couple of times by accident. There were some hash cakes and I wasn’t told!
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Sleep
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And stop tapping. Go to a massage or acupuncture man if it’s bad enough. Don’t try to turn your head to the right. Wear a scarf. Most of all, stop tapping.
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The happy bone’s connected to the hope bone,
The hope bone’s connected to the future bone
The future bone’s connected to the fulfillment bone
Now hear de word of de Pigs
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WOW!
Don’t Bogart that joint my friend.
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Yeah! Pass it over to me!
😉
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Bloody herniated discs, trouble at any spinal level.
Love the painting, that vertebral column seems to have snake-like quality to it. Skeletons seems to be eerie and comical at the same time.
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Gloriously creepy pic, Lehan!
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thanks atomou. It’s not such a good picture of the painting, but it’s okay.
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Why do we do this to ourselves? She says guiltily walking the 3 metres to the drawer with the spare wired mouse after having tapped for a day because the wireless mouse batteries ran out. Thanks for the reminder.
Like the painting.
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Yes Voice! BEWARE of the C5-6! It’s DEADLY!
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I get it in the finger joints, lower neck, and forearm. Still get slack sometimes though.
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You need a neck massage, Voice 😉
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Thankyou for your concern. I think.
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For those of you without a herniated disc in their neck, C5 and 6 are the bones in your neck responsible for the pain that shoots down your arm to your thumb. If it were your little finger it would be a different C.
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I have a titanium plate screwed into mine, with some bone that was transplanted from my fibula. The pain is till there and levels 4 & 7 are affected 🙂
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But I hope I die,before I get old..The Who.
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Ooh. 4 and 7. Nasty.
Does the titanium set off security when you go through the body scanner?
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No it doesn’t Lehan. The 1st time that I travelled by air, I took a leeter with me, just in case.
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Why heck, I’m still trying to find the Any key 🙂
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What is the Any key, Hung?
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Press any key to continue
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It won’t be too long now, Hungsie when you won’t have to press Any. Technology is improving in leaps and taps.
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