Thanks Lew, my choice would have to be a rescue craft of some sort or Tug helping others.
Cheers Colin.

A wise man once said
Growing old is not for the faint hearted

The strength shown by Colin and resilience shown by Lew to name but a few demonstrate this.

I’m a proud to be in the company of the older generation with members like this

I wish you all the best for the future Colin.

OK Colin, my younger friend (I got five years on you). If you scale us down and someone could put us in a fine rc model boat, one could say "we are both in the same boat". I am sure that is true with many others on this forum as well. You ask for no sympathy so I hope you accept my sense of humor.

Now, about that boat, what would you like it to be?

Lew

Thanks for all the encouragement shipmates, I will beat this problem someday.
Luckily my 11 year old grandson is keen, so I will be supervising him mostly. But he's got a steady hand and a good eye for detail so hopefully I will be able live my modelling life again through him.
As for my dead hands, I have 3 prolapsed vertebrae which is compressing my nerves to my lower arms and hands. The surgeon has told me that surgery now would only have about a 10% chance of success, or leave me with permanent paralysis. So I'll have to live with it.
Coping with life is made more difficult as I am the only driver and have to shuttle around my wife and daughter in law who are both disabled and doing daily school runs for the grandchildren.
So now I have shared my woes with you all, please don't offer sympathy, just accept I'm not perfect, but have learnt to accept my life.
Cheers shipmates, regards Colin.

Welcome back to the workbench Colin - I know what it is like to work with painful hands.

I also find that I drop a lot of things these days which is very annoying - more so because I have problems picking things back up again as cannot feel much with my fingers.

I had to laugh when I went for a blood test this week and I was asked to make a fist ! My fingers won’t fold in that far anymore and my two small fingers won’t fold in at all !

When working on my model boats I actually forget about these problems most of the time as I have learned to adapt and automatically find that I hold tools differently and work differently to accommodate it, so I hope you will find the same once you get started.

Painting remains a hateful job as I keep dropping the paint brush - and trying to paint a straight line only reminds me that my hands shake as well !

Stay with it Colin - don’t give up - it’s good therapy!

Bob.

Hi Colin, glad to hear you might be getting back to your life again, and perhaps back to some modelling which might be therapeutic. Re numbness in the hands, - maybe carpal tunnel? I started getting that while restoring a motorbike, then found when I finally started riding, that my hands went completely numb after about 15mins and I couldn't feel if I was hanging on or not, and had to stop and let the feeling come back. Eventually found I had carpal tunnel syndrome and had to give up riding (after 50yrs) Had an op on my left hand about 8yrs ago which fixed that side. Tips of my fingers are still a bit numb and not much feeling, but a lot better. Right hand still could do with fixing but I don't ride any more so not a problem. Good luck getting back to 'normal'

JB

Hi Colin, we're all looking forward to seeing you back.

Hang in there Colin! Sending good vibes.
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Colin its so sorry to hear about your continuous miseries. You are here for you.