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Edited by Bogricia:
8/22/2014 7:05:22 PM
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Sorry to hear about your thumb. That truly sucks. Hopefully my story will help you out a little.
One month and 11 days before the PS3 launch I was in a car accident. I was the passenger in the vehicle and some idiot made an illegal left turn and hit the car I was in head on. I had a lot of injury's, but the big one was a lower trunk brachial plexus injury. In non-medical speak that means nerve damage in my shoulder that made my right hand go completely dead. (seatbelt broke ribs, broken ribs stabbed nerve, hand no worky any more).
Needless to say I was pretty devastated. But I rested up and started to heal. A month went by and although my hand was still totally useless I got my ps3 and I played the hell out of it. I found a way to hold the controller against my body and mash the buttons with Stupid Hand (that is what I call my hand post nerve damage) and I was able to find a way to play. It wasn't easy at first and i got very impatient. "I used to be good, and now I suck" played like a record in my head. But I stuck with it and figured out a way to play that worked for me and eventually got better.
It's been years now and I have had several surgeries on my hand. It will never be like it was. (pic was taken today) Alas forever Stupid Hand. But I still game avidly and I am still finding better and better ways to compensate for my disability.
Sorry this dragged on a bit. The moral of the story is if you love gaming, you will find a way to game around your injury. Even if your thumb never returns to normal.
See you in the wild Guardian
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*tears* sorry man.
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There are pople out there that make modded controllers for conditions like this. You should look them up :)
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Thanks, after a little research it looks like a Scuf controller might work pretty well for me if I can disable the O and R3 click and map them to the back buttons.
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They had an article in gameinformer about a company that does it free of charge.
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That's an inspiring story, truly awful luck you had there, and it's amazing that you found a way around it. My injury is much less serious so I can't compare the situations, but you have given me a new determination to not let this injury sideline me from something I enjoy doing so much. It will be difficult with the full thumb cast but I'm going to start figuring something out today (I went out and bought PVZ: garden warfare the day before this happened so I have something to test it out with). Thank you very much for your post and your encouraging words.
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Hey no worries my friend, it was a long time ago. My butthurtness over it is long gone. Kontrol Freaks makes this clip on deal for racing games, but to me it looks like you could fit a thumb cast in there nicely. http://www.kontrolfreek.com/sports/speed-freek-apex.html
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That looks like the perfect solution, I was actually thinking of gerryrigging something of that sort, but this looks like an easier alternative. Thank you so much for the help, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to compete like normal but it will afford me the opportunity to play and experience this journey from the beginning with my friends, even if it doesn't work thank you very much!
