AW: [sw-l] ASL Sign for Chemotherapy?

Charles Butler chazzer3332000 at YAHOO.COM
Sat Feb 4 21:16:31 UTC 2006


VEry good.
   
  Charles
  

Bill Reese <wreese01 at TAMPABAY.RR.COM> wrote:
  Thanks Charles,
Like I asked Stefan with his variation, could it also be written the 
following way?



Bill

Charles Butler wrote:

> Doesn't yours show the palm facing down, not up? The hand is halfway 
> which shows back of hand up. I realize the port is just below the 
> shoulder, but I'm not sure how else to show the palm facing correctly, 
> and having the touch for the pinkie, not the index finger. How's this?
> 
> Charles
> 
>
>
> Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
> 
> attached you find my suggestion how to write the sign as I
> understand your description.
> 
> There are always several different options ... smile - and it
> depends on how detailed the spelling is ! needed.
> 
> Looking at your spelling - the palm is down not up - so this way
> it is difficult for the pinky to touch the breast.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Stefan ;-)
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Von: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] Im Auftrag von Bill Reese
> Gesendet: Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 15:12
> An: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Betreff: [sw-l] ASL Sign for Chemotherapy?
> 
> A member of my late-deafened support group was trying to describe
> a sign he had ju! st learned for "chemo" (chemotherapy). He
> described it this way:
>
>
>"Open four hand, palm up, tap pinky to the chest where a port
>
>would be - just below the shoulder joint, in the meat of the
>
>pectoral muscle"
>
> 
>
> That's a little ambiguous to me as I don't know which hand or
> shoulder, if the fingers are splayed or if the little finger
> touches once or twice. If I take it to be the right hand's !
> little finger touching the chest just below the right shoulder,
> palm up, thumb tucked, fingers splayed, touching just once, would
> this be correct?
>
>
>
> Bill
>
>

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