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My Hands Are Slowest at My Own Shop Counter

What slow hands cost a shopkeeper

A shop runs on small movements done fast. Mine are neither any more. The change takes two attempts while the queue watches. The shutter key turns only when I grip it with both hands. My son opens the shop on cold mornings now, pretending it is for his own reasons.

He watched my hands do the work of the shop

I had seen a doctor about these hands before, and the specialist wanted those reports first. He read what had been found and already tried. Then he set my own work in front of me: coins to count, a key to turn, a button to close. He watched where the fingers narrow and give up.

Practice fitted between customers

His plan is guided exercise in short sets fitted to a working day. A few minutes before the shutter goes up. Another set in the quiet hour after lunch. Each stage asks a little more bend and grip than the one before. At reviews he sets the same coins and key before me again. He is plain that hands stiffened over years do not loosen in a fortnight.

My daily medicines stay out of this

I take regular medicines for other reasons, and this plan leaves them all alone. They run on at the same times, in the same amounts. Exercise practice is added next to a prescription, never traded against it. If one ever needs to change, the doctor who gave it to me decides that.

If the stiffness is a sign of something else

He also said that if his examination points to a problem belonging to another kind of specialist, he will tell me early. For troubles of a different sort, the same directory also carries general surgeons in Rangpur.

Things I wanted to know first

Nobody injured these hands. Can anything still be done?

Yes. Stiffness that crept in slowly can still be measured and worked on. His examination maps how much movement your hands still have in them.

Will the practice eat into my shop hours?

Very little. The sets are short and sit in the day's quiet corners. Most of the work happens between customers, not instead of them.

Should I hand the counter over to my son until the hands improve?

Not unless the doctor says so. Ordinary counter work, done the way he shows you, often becomes practice itself.

How will either of us know the hands are loosening?

He repeats your own tests at each review, the coin count and the key among them. When those get easier, the plan is doing its work.

One hand is worse than the other. Does it get the same exercises?

Not necessarily. A hand that lags can be given more of the work, while the other keeps its gains.

What sudden trouble means hospital right away, not the next review?

Treat these as hospital matters, not things for the next review. Sudden weakness down one side of your body is one. Losing control of your urine or stool is another. A fall after which an arm or leg will not move cannot wait. Neither can severe pain arriving with fever.