All You Lefty's Out there....

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  1. Are You Left Handed?

    • 28
      Left Handed
    • 6
      Right Handed
    • 5
      Ambidextrous - Use both left and right

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:coollook: Just out of curiosity, how many of you nurses out there are left handed?

Lefty too. As a kid the doctors tried to get my parents to make me change. Didn't happen.:chuckle

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Specializes in er, pediatric er.

I'm a lefty too! I always kid that I need to apply for handicapped license :chuckle

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Specializes in er, pediatric er.
I'm a lefty too. When I worked in a factory years ago, everything was set up for right handed individuals, so I can do quite a bit with my right hand after working there 5 years. Happy Easter. Sincerely, Anna

I worked in a factory for eight years, and I can relate! One night I was asked to help a fellow lefty who was orienting with a particular task. I start to show him how and realize I do this RIGHT HANDED! :chuckle :uhoh21:

It is amazing how many things we have to adapt to or do right handed!

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I write lefty...ambidextrous in everything else.

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Lefty here too, but I golf right handed, play soft-ball right handed oh! and I kick a ball with my left foot! I am so messed up! LMAO!!

Hey, that sounds kind of like me!!!

I am dominantly right handed, write with my write, bowl with my write, bat and golf with my right. However, I throw a ball and shoot darts with my left. I am capable, though not neatly, of writing with my left, and I can hold an eating utensil in either hand to eat! Could explain my weight problem!:chuckle I kick with my left foot.

I tried taking an American Sign Language course in college, and the instructor kept giving me grief about switching hands while trying to sign.

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ME, ME, ME, too!

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I am a lefty, but have learned to do some minor things with my right.

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Specializes in Research,Peds,Neuro,Psych,.

LEFTY here!

Cutting, throwing, kicking...right. Everything else left, including "eye" for mircroscopes and cameras.

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

i'm a lefty too. so is my dad, and my daughter. i basically do everything w/ my left hand. i find it difficult to do nursing things in the 'wrong side' of the bed. i either rearrange the bed/crib (to get on the right [correct] side), or i'll turn the kid (if it's a baby) the other way!!!

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I'm guilty of being a lefty also. Growing up in basically a right handed world, I have learned to do a lot of things with my right hand. If I tried to bowl with my left hand, I would be knocking down the pins 2 lanes over from where I was. Now when I use a pair of scissors, I need to use a right handed pair, but must use my left hand! Go figure! I feel more comfortable checking for a pulse with my right hand.

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lefty also. What fun it was having a right handed instructor trying to teach me to give injections!!!! What a sight. i finally gave up and learned to do it right handed.

I know that feeling....I have the awfulest time finding landmarks I hate to give IM injections.

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I tried taking an American Sign Language course in college, and the instructor kept giving me grief about switching hands while trying to sign.

Me Too! I'm 100% lefty, but I had the worst trouble understanding stuff and figuring out how to make it "backwards" in sign language. To this day, I sign some words with my left hand, and some with my right... Whatta mess!

~*~kendra~*~

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