I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.
I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.
Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.
I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
It don't matter if I got a broke hand, got a torn muscle: I'm going to fight like heavyweight champions do.
I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I've shrunk up a little bit. I'm probably 6-5 or so now. But up here at 82, I feel pretty good. I'm sticking in there.
Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.
I'm as strong and supple as a pane of thin glass. I've got too many ailments - left shoulder, left elbow and left wrist - in fact, the whole of the left arm.
I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.