I had a most frightening epihpany this morning. When I woke up, two fingers on my left hand were sublocated (just kind of out of socket), and my right was this numb lump of pain. This is not an entirely uncommon event for me at this point in my life, but today really sucked.

I'm 23. I now know for a fact, that barring some luck with medical skillset, in the not too distant future I will be physically unable to game. Or do other things that are near and dear to me...with my right hand. Using a mouse for long periods of time on anything other than the internet or a nice slow point-N-click leaves a searing pain in my palm. The 360 controller leaves my fingers so litteraly out of whack I have to manhandle them back into a hand shape. I won't even get started on the Guitar hero.

This sucks, this sucks big time. And it just seems to be getting worse.

So do us all a favor this holiday season guys. Take that $50+ your were thinking about dropping on some crappola quilty pleasure release *cough* madden *cough*, and consider donating it to something helpful like

Arthritus research campaign, the american diabeties association , or the national MS society

Its a good thing. These diseases affect us as gamers and as people. Much more than pretty much anythign from EA short of a cease and desist letter can. Course the fact that I have not a single watcher will GREATLY limit the effect of this, but it was theraputic to write. aside from the hurt.