Why does Russel howard shake hands with his left hand?

Answer 1

Russell wrote the following, that's why he cannot shake with his right hand:

Hello

I thought I'd write an official message to you because the news of my recent stay in hospital has started to emerge and, as well as receiving lots of nice messages from well-wishers, there have also been lots of interesting theories (and a fair few bizarre ones) posted on twitter, so I thought I'd let you know what actually happened.

I've been in hospital for A WEEK. I've been on morphine, I've been flushed through with antibiotics, I've had two operations and now I'm bandaged up and typing this with my left hand.

That's right. I've managed to ruin my other hand. No I didn't break it doing press ups on a collapsible chair. I had to have 2 operations on an infected thumb. When I came round from the first operation they told me that at one point they thought they'd have to amputate my thumb, which would really have hampered my hitchhiking skills.

So that's it really, you can either feel sorry for me or do what my mates did and send me a massive foam hand.

On a serious note I'd like to thank all the nurses, doctors and various people that looked after me.

Russ