Health Followup
Posted by TFG on January 30th, 2008
Oh, yeah - that numb tingly hand…carpal tunnel, per the doc. That explains partly my reluctance to keep chunking up tons of verbiage here. I guess one day I can get used to, as I read somewhere, my hand feeling like it belongs to a guy in another county. Meanwhile, I’ll wear this $35 splint that’s supposed to relax the wet stuff impinging on the tunnel that is carpal.
The bad thing is that this truly minor annoyance is seriously affecting my judgment about life in general. I’m wondering if, when the loss of sensation in two fingertips is driving me to distraction and crazed obsession, what happens when something really crappy happens? I’ve lived in my body too much, deriving too much pleasure from it and what it can do/tolerate. Well, could do, anyway. I’m still a long way from decrepitude, I think, but crap. I don’t really want to live with naught but this recalcitrant, noxious, pontificating, boring-in-every-way brain only. I guess that’s the end of the road, though, ain’t it? You and your idiot brain.
Yes, I’ve had a couple of toots of Jameson & Sons. Irish whisky sooths me a little. Stupid, ain’t it, that a couple of numb fingers cause this much angst, but you know, those fingers have been good to me for 47½ years, and now they desert me? And where’s the loyalty, Wrist? I built all you bastards up from nothing, and this middle-management white-collar desertion is the thanks I get? Fine, fine…I’ll pound you into bloody submission on this keyboard, and you’re going to end up burnt off by a hot dutch oven, but you won’t be able to blame me, because I tried.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
“a couple of toots”
How big is a “toot”? From the sound of things, it must like, what, a pint?
January 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I’m not Jimmy McNulty, sir.
Yet.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
I had some major thumb/wrist tendon issues a couple of years ago…I was slated for an operation with a plastic surgeon. Since he wasn’t doing a face lift, I wasn’t much interested, so went to a physical therapist with a sports medicine specialty, ie used to getting football players back on the field in 10 seconds. Four months of therapy and I was cured…no surgery and no recurring problems.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Dang, girl, where the hell you been? I was thinking about you the other day. I’ve missed you.
Good to know about the therapy. I’m doing the little splint, and the daily exercises. I sure don’t want no surgery.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:19 pm
If y’all got any suggestions for elbor tendonitis or bursitis tha just won’t go away, I’m all ears.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I had bursitis and a steroid shot cured it. Man, that sucked.
I’ve had elbow problems since jr high, thanks to all my screwy sports nut activities. Nothing has ever helped, so I’ve learned to ignore it.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:20 am
I’m trying to learn to ignore it, but without much success. When it gets real bad I have trouble lifting a cup of coffee. When it feels good I go and play golf and that manages to make it real bad again.
I now know I’m turning into my parents as far too many conversations drift into medical histories…