United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

Robert,
I am a firm believer that Humor heals, and helps!
You are sure welcome here anytime, Ya'hear!

HUgs,
Carolyn J
LOBPI/70

Me too. Thats whats helped me stay so optimistic. It seems as though parents, friends and fam take it harder than I do.

Hey all,
When i was little (and even now) my mother always called my arm "your special arm". she even used to say it to my teachers its was alittle embarrasing as i got older. My friend used to call me "gimpy" in art class in high school, but i just called her a midget back because she was short. it was all in good fun. my fiance calls it my "broken wing" because his nickname for me is snowbird. i guess there all sorts of things to callit.

In college, I would always make weird poses with my arm to try to freak people out a bit for fun. Some of my friends called me "Crazy Hand" or "Crazy Arm" said in a silly way. Sometimes I call it my gimp arm, too...just for fun.

Hi my friends and myself have always refered to my arm as my bad arm.When i was young some children thought it was something they could catch from me and my close friends wanted to do everything for me because of my"bad arm"It is nice to know there are others out there with erbs palsy to relate to.

I always just call it my bad arm, but i do like the 'lucky fin' lol! i showed my friends in college how i make my arm go on top of my head, which is like a full body movement of throwing my arm up there... ever since freshman year it has been "do the arm thing"
~Mel, 21, LOBPI

reading this thread seriously just made my day,
growing up my mom always referred to it as 'your arm'
around my friends i usually call it my silly arm or something along those lines, since i always accidently hit them with my elbow.
I love the Nemo realted names. One of my best friend's little sister asked me what was wrong with my arm once and i told her it was kinda like Nemo's fin, since she was to young to really understand

Hi! I'm new here (just created my account, oh, 3 mins. ago) and I have to say I've been horribly un-creative when it comes to referring to my injured arm! You all put me to shame. = )

I've also had it dubbed by family as my "bad" arm, and often refer to it as my 'weak' arm. Sometimes just my Left Arm (undeniably capatalized, always said rather ominously. LOL)- it has also been called my 'gimpy' arm but in a playful way by some of my closest friends.

rachelcasa wrote:After the movie Finding Nemo, I now call my arm the short fin!! Although after the mod quad I have gained 2 inches in length it is still shorter and I still have the bow in it. I also had to get the Nemo tattoo to go along with it.

I LOVE IT! I really want to get a nemo tattoo!

I call my arm the chicken wing. Sometimes I have other names for it but we wont go there lol