This morning I cut my finger nails!

This time last year it was a simple task I could not carry out. It sounds crazy but nail clippers are small, shiny, slippery objects and very difficult to hold, combined with a lack of co-ordination it became a risk to either cutting my fingers off, losing the nail clippers or getting somebody else to cut them for me. I ended up referring to the latter much to my disappointment.

Most people take a simple tasks like cutting their finger nails for granted and I was one of them until I could not do it. I would hold the clippers in one hand, rest against a table and insert the nail to be cut, Missed! As the clippers shot out my hand, no nail was cut and I had to look to find where the clippers had ended up!

The bureaucracy had gone mad as my carer was unable to cut my nails, due to health and safety! So my nails got longer and longer. I was thinking of entering the Guiness book of records, I had nails the length a young woman would love but not a young man. I was still stuck with the problem of how to cut my own nails!

I then discovered the best mobility aids I had seen, it was simple. A pair of nail clippers mounted on a sturdy board, you place your finger in and press down, click that was one finger done and in 5 minutes I had cut all my own fingernails! An incredible little gadget that ensured I was able to look after my own personal grooming without the need for somebody else or a carer to tell me a list of reasons why they could not cut my nails.

There is actually a wide range of gadgets especially designed for people with different needs and it was not until I started looking did I see how many variations there are available. Nail clippers for people witha arthritis, desk mounted nail clippers, extra large nail clippers. You name it, it was there somebody else had the same problem as me and a company created a solution to the problem.

On this website I think you will find a lot of solutions to problems and gadgets you never thought existed!

Author: Jason