How often do you spill things

I started dropping things before I was diagnosed with carpal tunnel, it's improved since I had surgery for it.

I've always been clumsy but it has got worse as I've got older. Drives me crazy at times and makes me so angry when I spill things!

Hello Babypink, yes losing grip is an age thing I'm sorry to say! I don't do too badly but I drop things all the time! Clothes pegs are a nightmare as my fine motor skills are comprised by arthritis. I also have to take care with spatial awareness otherwise I too knock things over. Don't be too worried, if indeed you are, it happens to a lot of us!

Grips OK but since carpal tunnel op, the tips of the first three fingers on my right hand have become numb which means I cannot feel things I am holding. It also explains my erraric typing as I cannot feel hoe much pressure I am putting on keys.

I am also mildly dyspraxic, so dropping things, misjudging where they are and being generally cack-handed is a way of life!

I’m doing exercises to alleviate that but do feel my grip has weakened- fingertip press-ups and grip-and-pull are definitely working. Use it or lose it etc.

Not often but too often for my liking. Usually when carrying a hot drink up to bed and not switching the landing lights on.
Although the carpets are cream I can blot with tissue (first putting mug down safely) and spraying a blob of kitchen or bathroom cleaner on the drips, then gently rubbing in a circular motion with an impregnated kitchen wipe. This has always worked excellently as I make a larger circle than the original drip, so as to stop a tide mark, IYSWIM. ?

My granddaughter saw Mum in her care home. She was most impressed that Mum had a 'sippy cup' - just like hers!

www.completecareshop.co.uk/drinking-aids/adult-drinking-cups/

I just spilt my

Spilling things is a daily occurrence. I have always been clumsy.

My mum used to have tremors related to her medication, bless. She died 2y ago at the age of 87y. I miss her very much.

We used to enjoy a week together every year in Ibiza.

Our last holiday together, I noticed she would ask the hotel staff to bring her a cup of tea but in a beaker (she never called it a mug for some reason). That way, she explained to me, there was a couple of inches without fluid at the top so when she got the ‘shakes’ she didn’t spill.

Anyway - my memory from that last holiday is watching her bring 2 large glasses of wine over from the bar to our table, which were filled to the brim! I pointed this out to her? She said ‘it depends what I’m drinking!’.
❤️

A lovely story which made me ?
Thanks for sharing.
I miss my mum too although she's been gone many more years. Here's to mums past and present ???

Urmstongram, what a lovely story and how lovely that the two of you have had some great holidays together. She may not be here, but those memories of her will stay forever.

What a darling Urmstongran- hope you’re carrying on the tradition ?

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We had great times.
I was very lucky to have her in my life for as long as I did wasn’t I?

She made me giggle.
We pooled our money for the week for our ‘holiday spends’. A kitty.
She used to ask me ‘does the cat need feeding?’.

Heck! Only just got that... kitty and feeding...gawd. ?
Your mum sounds as if she was on the ball with a great sense of humour.