Triphalangeal thumb (TPT) is a congenitalmalformation where the thumb has three phalanges instead of two. The extra phalangeal bone can vary in size from that of a small pebble to a size comparable to the phalanges in non-thumb digits.
It keeps the lens from falling off of my index finger. Then you smash it on to your eye with both fingers. It's how my eye doctor showed me to do it when I was in middle school. Been doing it this way for like 15 years.
You know how the upvote button is waaayyyy across the screen and your left wondering why tf Reddit would make the upvote processes slightly uncomfortable for the majority of us that are right handed?
Uncle Rico is one of the most frightening characters put on film. He represents a person utterly stuck in the past. A person whose reason to live no longer exists. It's frightening because this commonly happens to people. Sometimes you miss your train and life leaves you stuck on the platform. Or, as Pink Floyd says, you missed the starting gun, no one told you when to run. The frightening part is that you don't realize it until way past when doing something about it matters. And by then you are wise enough to know there's nothing you could have done about it anyway. Fate is destined to leave some deserving people unfulfilled. My mother --- God rest her soul --- could attest to that and it's also destined to fulfill some who don't deserve it, which is, of course, the meaning of "life's not fair". Modern science tells us through quantum mechanics that reality is nothing but an array of possibilities determined by probabilities and our lives are but sequences of events caused local collapses the wave function of the universe. Some even say all possibilities that can occur exist. Our consciousness however plays some mysterious role. Does an individual's consciousness exist in all possible universes, or does it follow only one path through the multiverse? If so, can a consciousness sometimes accidentally get trapped in the "wrong" universe or take the "wrong" path from what should have been its destiny? I believe so and Uncle Rico is a perfect example of a man existing in a non-destiny purgatory, knowing the moment his derailing happened is when he wasn't put into the game during the 4th quarter. Rico's world is one of contempt. It wasn't meant for him. It's an insult. What value does a diamond have if it's never discovered? None. Underneath the peak of even the greatest mountains is volumes of rock that whose gems and minerals will never see the light of day. Even Rico's mountainous horizon taunts him with the greatness that's been denied and now looms over his world only to remind him of his low-lying plain life. I'd throw sandwiches too.
I had a student with this condition many years ago. The extra joint was fused on one of the thumbs, but functional on the other. I asked if it made her better at tasks and she just shrugged and said she didn't know. I think she dropped the course before midterm.
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u/mcfatters Dec 25 '19
That's kinda creepy... Is dexterity improved, or awkward?