My Shaky Hands

One side effect of my medication is that my hands are always shaking. The shakes bother me because they have limited my career options, and it is hard for me to do certain tasks. My shaky hands always make me look like I am either sick, have had too much caffeine, or just really nervous.

I would like to work in healthcare but my shaky hands make it nearly impossible for me to be able to work most healthcare jobs because they require the use of needles. With these shaky hands, it would be a safety risk for me to try to stick a needle in a patient’s vein. There is a healthcare job that I would like and can do which is being an ultrasound technician and I do not believe that it requires using needles. Even if I pursue this career path, I am afraid that my future patients will not trust me because of my shaky hands.

Tasks that require the use of fine motor skills are difficult for me. I used to enjoy needlepoint but I stopped because I was getting frustrated fitting the yarn through the eye of the needle due to my shaky hands. It is frustrating that my shaky hands often prevent me from doing things that I enjoy. I feel like I am missing out on some fun things to do. Painting is a lot of fun but my hands are not steady enough to paint the finer details. Which stinks because without the finer details, I feel like they are very lackluster. The paintings hardly ever come out the way that I had envisioned them.

My shaky hands really bother my dad whenever he sees them, he always acts really concerned when it comes to my hands. Mom says that it is because they remind him of grandma who had hand tremors. I cannot even flip through papers without it looking like I am nervous or have had too much caffeine. It is also kind of annoying when people see my shaky hands and ask me if I am okay. I constantly have to tell people that I am okay and they are just a side effect of my medication.