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

[Bill Reese]

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 <stefanwoehrmann at GEBAERDENSCHRIFT.DE> 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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