[Lady Sidhe]

I'm not really sure if this is trivia, but....


Canadian Occupational Hazards
(real maladies as reported in the Atlas of Occupational
Markers in Human Remains and the Journal of the American
Medical Association)


1. HOOKER'S ELBOW: No, it's not what you think. Hooker's
elbow is a bone spur common among fisherman, the Inuit in
particular, caused by the constant yanking of a line while
standing stationary. The world's original repetitive
strain injury.

2. MUSHER'S KNEE: A bone deformation caused by pushing off
on a dogsled using the same leg again and again.

3. BEER-DRINKER'S FINGER: A swelling in the finger, sometimes
accompanied by bruising and lacerations, caused by the
repeated opening of beer tabs. (Switching to twist-offs
doesn't help either, because all you're doing is swapping
one malady for another.) Again, this is a real affliction-
I kid you not!

4. MAL DE RAQUETTE: Stress and chronic pain in the knees and
hips caused by wearing snowshoes.

5. HUMPER'S LUMP: A strain or even outright dislocation of the
lower neck that afflicts lumberjacks and lumber carriers.
(Not to mention "Squashed Lumberjack Syndrome," an all-too-
common affliction, usually fatal.)

6. PADDLER"S TOE: A deformation of foot joints that plagues
long-distance canoeists, first noted among voyageurs in the
1700s.



Sidhe