What's worse, an arm or a leg?

[Dis]

you need your right hand for the mouse, and left hand for the wasd keys.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Dis
The real interesting question (for men) is if you'd choose your penis or your brain. Say you had an option of giving up your penis or half your IQ. Which would you choose?

I'd keep my IQ. At least I'm using it.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Dis
The real interesting question (for men) is if you'd choose your penis or your brain. Say you had an option of giving up your penis or half your IQ. Which would you choose?

I use both pretty much the same...But I'd choose my IQ...I could live without getting laid, but not without my brain.

Besides, if I end up with half a brain, what girl would want anything to do with me? Except a girl like Paris or Jessica I mean....And I'd lose my job also...

Nope, the more I think about it, the clearer the choice is.

Brain I keep, off with my penis!

Spec.

[Provost Harrison]

I'd relinquish my penis. I'd be nothing without my brain. And as long as I had a hole to pee out of, it wouldn't make much difference anyway

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Kontiki


Only a hopeless nerd couldn't live without both arms for optimal computer use - you can get by just fine with one. Everything else you listed can be done with one arm too. Obviously you could carry less, and may need some help cutting some food (although most can just be chewed apart), but I don't see how that could compare to being in a wheelchair, dealing with crutches or shuffling around with one leg and/or some sort of prosthetic. And speaking of carrying stuff, how much do you think you could carry with one leg?

Obviously loosing either an arm or a leg would suck royally, but I think you're seriously underestimating the value of mobility. It's something that effects practically everything you do, not just certain activities that may take up 10% of your time.

Well, being as I've spent the majority of the last four months with two ****ed up arms and one ****ed up leg, I've become a bit of an authority on the subject.
I'm not talking amputated, but I am talking 80-90% loss of function in two right limbs and about 60% with the left arm. I couldn't use crutches, a cane or a walker/wheelchair due to the arm injuries.

One arm has healed, the other is about 50-60% and my right leg is now about 75%.

Back in December, I could barely get around the house and had a hard time feeding myself, or doing much of anything else. The nice thing about having limbs is you can decide how much pain a given activity is worth enduring, or whether to bother at all.

If you've got functioning arms, mobility can be achieved, especially if you've got one good leg. There's really not much point to being able to hop, skip and jump around all over the place if you can't do anything when you're there, and can't carry anything back with you.

You can do most things fairly half-assed with one arm, if you have a lot of help or accommodation or technology to make things easier, but given a choice between two even half-functioning arms or legs, I'll take the leg injury any day.

[Arrian]

Dude, wtf happened to you?

As for the question - left arm, surely.

-Arrian

[MichaeltheGreat]

Combination of repeated plantar fasciitis going chronic in the right foot. Overworked by SOB employer until I had an extremely bad case of tendonitis in the left arm and a ruptured tendon plus nerve damage in the right arm. Then I was canned within 24 hours of getting rated for worker's comp, then jerked around and not properly diagnosed or treated by the original worker's comp doctor, who then iced the cake by ****ing me over on temp disability.


Choices for the foot are spending lots of time every day stretching it and icing it and only being a semi-gimp with moderate pain, or surgery which will end the pain, but essentially make the right foot useless for all sorts of things.

The right arm has most of the range of motion back, normal sensation and about half the strength of my left arm, but may still require surgery.

[MichaeltheGreat]

WTF is with the red background and title-cap the words on people's posts?

[Spiffor]

Shhh, don't offend the OTBOT!

He's our new April-fools-moderator

[Spiffor]

Oh, and what happened to you really sucks

[MichaeltheGreat]

The best part is I got rated for worker's comp on December 20, then canned December 21. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too!

[Zkribbler]

Just wondering, here's the context. You've been captured by modern samurais and they are using you as a training doll. But they are letting you choose what you'd rather lose. Should they cut off your leg or arm?

Errol Flynn set out the rates in Captain Blood:

Right arm is the most valuable.
Left arm is next.
Then a leg.

He didn't set a rate for losing Mr. Friendly.

[Dis]

You're showing your age there.

[Zkribbler]

And don't even get me stated on The Adventures of Don Juan.

Errol Flynn: Darling, I've loved you since the beginning of time!
Hot Babe: But we only met this morning.
Errol Flynn: Yes, but that is when Time began.

[Arrian]

Choices For The Foot Are Spending Lots Of Time Every Day Stretching It And Icing It And Only Being A Semi-gimp With Moderate Pain, Or Surgery Which Will End The Pain, But Essentially Make The Right Foot Useless For All Sorts Of Things.

I've had a (relatively mild I think) bout with Planar Fasciitis. For me, some stretching and icing combined with shoe inserts (the cushiest ones I could find) did the trick. I still wear the inserts to protect against another flare-up. I sympathize... it was a real *****. It took a couple of months before it went away. But it did.

As for the rest, sounds like a pretty scummy employer. Any action you can/will take?

-Arrian

p.s. Blood! Blood! BLOOD!