CAPSULITIS

 

 

It sounds medically related. 

For the medically untrained – it sounds ominous

For the diagnosed – daily life is incredibly curbed.  

 

Is this pandemic related?  Is it another Covid-19 metastatizing?  

For simpletons like myself, it is thumb and wrist inflammation from over text usage. 

 

“Stop texting.  Rest the wrist. Use dictation application instead and take anti-inflammatory pills” shouted at me from friends and medics.

 

But what do they know.  it is a by-product of my lifestyle for I communicate via texting and typing on my laptop 8 to 12 hours a day..   I’m just a writer.

 

If there was a time machine, given the task to explain this to my grandfather who is in heaven, that we humans don’t speak on phones anymore, as he used to via an operator in his day, but through typing out the words and we can literally take this phone everywhere from toilet to airplane. 

 

Proudly explaining our achievements in technology, ”We can watch movies, porn, buy stocks, delivery of every household needs and even date women”.  I think he would try to understand for two minutes then he would cut the thread by saying,

 

“but your silly device can’t smell the scent of a woman. -  go bandage your wrist and find a stenographer” and he was gone!  Time machine turned off.