@#(%*#$%%)$ Hands!

[alfreda89]

This may echo earlier posts, but I need to vent.

My hands have not been very happy lately—a great deal of their improvement was from Katie Armstrong trading weekly with me, and Katie had heavy family duties during the holidays, and then has been sick as a dog for two months. I cannot afford Pfrimmer work right now, although I’ve done almost enough web stuff to earn another 90 minutes from another friend. So, I try other things. I need to get the hot tub running (W handles pool, I do hot tub, now that it’s fixed, but I want to read the manual first!) Can’t find the blasted hot waxer yet, so I heat rice packs and set them in my lap and set hands on them—it helps.

I went grocery shopping the Monday after we returned from the convention, and made the mistake of thinking I could carry a moderate weight plastic bag out of the store, as opposed to paper with handles. By the time I made it to the car, my right index finger was firing nerve shots at me. This continued for about an hour. (This is why I do not buy soft drinks for W when I go to the store, unless I feel up to lugging them out in my arms.) My right hand! Almost the entire problem has been the left hand, except for the thumb joint pain. Once the LBb treatment kicked in, the thumb pain almost totally went away, leaving me with stiffness in the fingers—especially the little finger. I can no longer tightly fold down that finger to the top of my palm (distal side of palm, to be precise.) Now it hurts to fold down that finger (and the mid-phalanges of the others hurt as well) although I’m doing it—I have to keep it moving.

So now, two game plans...research taking a class in Manual Lymphatic Drainage, which should be gentle for me to do, is a needed technique, and something I could use as well—perhaps I can trade with someone else who does this. This is part of the “staying an RMT” plan. Will wait until after July, because I have 36 hours already for this year. The second plan is still seeing if I could get into a program for Clinical Nutrition. Lord, I was never good at standardized tests. I fear they'll be needed for the program. Third choice? New book is a hit, of course.

But there’s the “are they pulling all Cox-2 inhibiters off the market?” problem. Why? This is my situation while on 200 mg. of Celebrex daily. Becoming afraid of me off Celebrex.


Later, the convention report.