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Ok everyone I can't sleep; another question among other things is keeping me awake. Does RA make you have clumbsy hands?  It seems that at every turn I am spilling something or knocking something over. I spilled a glass of water this evening. Created a big mess which my son quickly cleaned up for me. I tend to drop things too.  Somehow they just slip right out of my hands. It's frustrating.  Yikes!! [QUOTE=mom2threeinaz]Ok everyone I can't sleep; another question among other things is keeping me awake. Does RA make you have clumbsy hands?  It seems that at every turn I am spilling something or knocking something over. I spilled a glass of water this evening. Created a big mess which my son quickly cleaned up for me. I tend to drop things too.  Somehow they just slip right out of my hands. It's frustrating.  Yikes!! [/QUOTE]

Girl, I've had clumsy hands ever since I discovered my hands as an infant. Yes! Clumsy, clumsy, clumsy!!! I am always knocking things over, banging my hand into something because I misjudged, throw things across the room when I meant to pick them up, drop things, etc., etc., etc. It is one of the most frustrating parts of this disease for me!Yes, clumsy hands are very common with RA.  You've got lots of company here.Oh boy, sometimes things just slip out of my hand...like my brain forgets to tell my hand what to do.  We don't have glass glasses anymore in the house as I have cut myself too many times.   oh gosh yes.. I HATE it..

 
 I stopped cooking breakfast when I dropped or splattered more eggs than made it to the pan.. I knock stuff over, I break my  (already short) fingernails when I hit things.I break glasses  on a regular basis.
 
 I spill things ALL the time.. especially when I'm pouring juice into bottles or sippy cups..
 
its so frustrating.
 
I lit a pan of bacon grease on fire last year while attempting to get bacon out of the frying pan.  I dropped the bacon, it hit the burner, the flames shot up, and lit the grease in the frying pan on fire.  Since then, if we have bacon, the husband cooks it.

My youngest son thought it was wicked cool when I put the fire out with the fire extinguisher (he was with me in the kitchen when it happened), and then the boys got to go out back and discharge the rest of the extinguisher (it was a single-use).

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