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So, tell me a little bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n ARM: Well as most people will know, I’ve been attached to you since before you were born, right?<\/p>\n Yeah I guess that goes without saying… but what’s changed recently?<\/strong><\/p>\n ARM: Well there’s some other people here who can explain that better than me. [to the others] Do you want to introduce yourselves?<\/p>\n R.S.I.: Hi, I’m your repetitive strain injury<\/em>. I guess my role is to give you pains in your arm and wrist when you’ve been using a keyboard too much. It’s been a few years now and we get on OK I think?<\/p>\n Well I suppose so. Who is the new guy?<\/strong><\/p>\n B.E.T.: Hi there. I’m your benign essential tremor<\/em>. It’s me whose been giving you those shakes since about February time.<\/p>\n Hi tremor! I was getting you two mixed up, wasn’t I?<\/strong><\/p>\n B.E.T.: Yeah, ‘fraid so. I’m not taking it personally tho. It’s good we came to the hospital today to sort this out.<\/p>\n And you’re here to stay, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n B.E.T.: Yup. Seems like I’m going to gradually get worse over the next 30 or 40 years, they reckon.<\/p>\n Because of you, I have to piss in a container this weekend?<\/strong><\/p>\n B.E.T.: Ha ha, yeah sorry, they still have some tests to do. On the upside you get to go for one of those gnarly MRI scans, tho.<\/p>\n Fair point, I’m looking forward that one. It was a pretty good consultation overall.<\/strong><\/p>\n ARM: For you maybe! She was hitting me<\/em> with a fucking hammer<\/em>!<\/p>\n Well yeah, but only to check your reflexes…<\/strong><\/p>\n ARM: And then they stuck a needle in me!<\/strong><\/p>\n C’mon, it was a blood test… ARM: Mmmph. Did you get embarrassed when that other guy came in and made me wave at her in all sorts of funny ways? I’m just saying ‘cos I thought you looked a bit of a spacker. Well, even more than usual anyway.<\/p>\n That wasn’t great. She was nice, tho.<\/strong><\/p>\n ARM: You probably shouldn’t have made that joke about being drunk all the time when we realised alcohol makes the shakes a bit better.<\/p>\n It wasn’t my finest moment. Are you going to help me carry this piss container home now?<\/strong><\/p>\n ARM: Yeah sure. You’re taking it quite well, I think.<\/p>\n Well it’s important to keep things in perspective. I mean, at least I know what the fuck is happening now and it isn’t that<\/em> bad. My arm shakes a bit sometimes, but not noticeably. Yet. <\/strong><\/p>\n I mean, three women I work with have had cancer scares in the last 6 months and only one of them has come out of it OK so far. Dubversion fucked himself up proper after falling off a ladder<\/a>, and generally the older you get the more awareness you have of people quietly enduring all sorts of horrible things on a daily basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n ARM: So you don’t hate me?<\/p>\n Nah, we’re good. It is just One Of Those Things. So, tell me a little bit about yourself. ARM: Well as most people will know, I’ve been attached to you since before you were born, right? Yeah I guess that goes without saying… but what’s changed recently? ARM: Well there’s some other people here who can explain that better than me. [to the others] Do …<\/p>\n![\"arm\"](\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/arm.jpg\" "\\"arm\\"")
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