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Gifts for my best friend who broke both of his arms?

My bestie broke both of his arms and wrists two days ago. He’s in his 20s, a gamer, has a pregnant wife and a young kid. Any ideas for gifts I can get to cheer him up? He’ll have no use of his arms for 3 months.

Already got a bidet for him and hooked it up. Looking into accessible gaming controllers, but he said that the pain is so bad rn that even alternative controllers are probably a no go.

communism ,
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Jerk your buddy off for him since he can’t do that right now

cheesymoonshadow ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

Nothing says you care like a no-homo handie.

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

OP never said they were a man. Maybe it’s a no-hetero handie.

sik0fewl ,

Let’s maybe just leave that to his wife. Or his mother.

someguy3 , (edited )

Can I ask how that happened?

I think what he and his family needs is help with chores. How well you can help with that depends on how far away you are.

Kit OP ,

He locked himself out of his house and crawled up on his roof to try to get in a window, but all of the windows were locked. He tried to get back down and the ladder toppled. He fell 12 ft and had curled into a ball to protect his head and torso, but his arms were shattered. He’s lucky he got away without a concussion or broken ribs.

seathru ,
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Then you should absolutely add one of those rock hide-a-key things to your list just for a laugh.

Kit OP ,

Lmao that’s perfect

TheRealKuni ,

Or, if you’re feeling a bit spendy, a keypad lock (find out if they use Schlage or Kwikset or some other key brand to match their existing keys). One of the best ways to prevent being locked out of the house.

Willy ,

Yale makes a nicer keypad deadboot

someguy3 ,

Oh suggest this is a good time to get some walks in. It’ll at least be some exercise, we’re all short on steps, some fresh air and sun. Just a couple 10 minute walks a day is easy. After meals is supposed to be a good time to help insulin response.

can ,

Uhhhh

lemmydripzdotz456 ,

IYKYK

sloppy_diffuser ,
kambusha ,

A caring mother…?

bobs_monkey ,

Very caring indeed

RandomStickman ,
@RandomStickman@kbin.run avatar

every fucking thread

MagicShel ,

We had an opportunity to be different, but it’s not Reddit, it’s us.

cm0002 ,

You can take the redditor out of Reddit, but you can’t take the Reddit out of the redditor

Alue42 ,

As soon as I read the title to this, I thought "here we go again", but I'm amazed there are actual helpful comments and only one reference to the arms broken/mom bit

Track_Shovel ,

Supremely refreshing

can ,

I let us all down :(

Track_Shovel ,

I don’t know why, but this moment of self realization is the best thing in this thread.

It’s like a gingerbread man in the gingerbread house comic moment

philpo ,

You don’t give your friend a thing, you give his poor wife something. A bidet goes so long and pregnancy itself is hard.

Seriously: Offer her to do some chores like shopping, gift them some take-away gift cards,etc. The situation will put a serious strain on their relationship,

dutchkimble ,

A beer helmet!

Maggoty ,

God no, not while your body is healing that kind of stuff.

Emtity_13 ,

A Jump rope

Emtity_13 ,

/s

Emtity_13 ,

/s

saltesc ,

I’ve broken a lot of bones.

Get him stuff that helps the family so he doesn’t feel useless and guilty. That’s number 1. It’s awful to feel like a burden to everyone, and that doesn’t go away no matter what is said to you.

Second, stretch bands to put around limbs and pull. It feels amazing. You don’t realise how little you move and how little muscle you use while subconsciously “nursing” a broken bone.

Something insanely complex that involves both arms to use or solve. It’s just funny as shit. But also, I swear I recover faster.

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

Just no train blueprints for Mr Glass over here

saltesc ,

Haha. I think my bone density is fine, I just ask a lot more of them than normal…

Bones: “This could break us.”

Brain: “Yeah, “could” but won’t. I got you.”

collective being does a thing that will be amazing or moronic depending on outcome in the next few seconds

pastermil ,

Thankfully you’re not his mom.

TriflingToad ,

explaining the source, TLDR mom ‘performed deeds’ for son with broken arms.

Zorsith ,
@Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

A life alert button as a joke

Maybe 1-2 USB foot pedals? There’s gotta be at least some games that only really require two buttons (assuming PC), all I can think of is OSU! off the top of my head

TriflingToad ,

osu requires aiming lol, “A Dance Of Fire And Ice” only requires 1 button but a lot of precision.
Anyways, one of these fighter game pads would be better:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0a8da421-d729-448a-b130-d78a1ca7b0fb.jpeg

But they still might be able to hold a controller depending on how bad it is

DirigibleProtein ,

Rubik’s cube

apotheotic ,

Firstly, my sympathies for your friend’s horrible situation

Secondly, don’t let him near anyone’s mother.

some_guy ,

Anything that makes him want to masturbate. Oh, wait… you were trying to cheer him up.

Kit OP ,

Ngl I was considering a suction cup fleshlight as a gag gift but his wife would kill me

bamboo ,

wait they make those?? I bet the suction cups don’t hold up. do you have a link, I think I’ll need to test this for myself, for science.

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Gag gift. Since he broke both arms, and wrists, he hopefully can still hold something lightweight.

https://brighterpromotions.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/u/mus056_rwr-hand1_1.jpg

Kit OP ,

Love this idea and absolutely adding this to the list

Krzd ,
@Krzd@lemmy.world avatar

Tape it to his cast.

intensely_human ,

Juggling balls.

Then spend a lot of time hanging out with him while he recovers.

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