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filkferengi) wrote2004-05-02 10:59 pm
filkferengi) wrote2004-05-02 10:59 pm
Where's Your Hangover Today?
Yesterday I spent far too much time on the computer, what with the extremely tedious creation process [new reality show: extreme tedium! Coming sweeps week!] & then trying to get caught up on some folks. In all, it was probably 3-5 times as long as I'm normally on-line.
I was first diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis a couple of years ago. It's mostly the middle joints of the first & middle fingers on both hands, although knuckles have been affected at various times. I had been able to cut back to one celebrex a day, until recently, when arthritis guy [who's really a sports doc] put me on baby aspirin, for the old heart. Even going back up to two celebrex, the middle joints have been hurting more, since the aspirin counteracts the celebrex. Let's just say, when I give anyone the finger these days, interesting geometry is involved; I call them the "rollercoaster fingers."
And that's on a good day. When I woke up around 5:30 this morning, both hands were sore, & the left was closed almost completely & very reluctant to open. The most I could flatten it out to was about a 135 degree angle. Both feet were hurting at the base of the toes, & the left foot was swollen. Even bleary-eyed, I remembered the alphabet: WTF?! [:(]
Hobbling back to bed, I remembered when we first went on-line, my hand did the same thing, the mouse-clutch curve. The feet must've been injured perching precariously for too long on the edge of the cooler [to elevate the feet, so they don't swell]. I told Marty I was suffering the effects of over-indulgence & had my hangover in the hands & feet [from all I've read, better than in the head & mouth, but still *not* fun].
It's been hurting lots all day long, which is why I saved the word "excruciating" for this portion of the program. I've been limping worse than a badly-plotted thing & clearing far too much backlog on the recorded stuff.
The good news is, it's getting better. The main [mouse] hand can flatten out to at least 165 degrees now. It's nothing like bursitis, gall bladder, compressed disk, or other killer pains I've known, &, goodness knows, other folks certainly have worse every day, but I'm glad it's going away. It's a relief that it's a temporary embarrassment, rather than further degeneration [sounds like a wrestling tag-team or bad music group]. So, I'm off to find out whether another soaking in epsom salts will help.
Orry Voyer,
Filkferengi
I was first diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis a couple of years ago. It's mostly the middle joints of the first & middle fingers on both hands, although knuckles have been affected at various times. I had been able to cut back to one celebrex a day, until recently, when arthritis guy [who's really a sports doc] put me on baby aspirin, for the old heart. Even going back up to two celebrex, the middle joints have been hurting more, since the aspirin counteracts the celebrex. Let's just say, when I give anyone the finger these days, interesting geometry is involved; I call them the "rollercoaster fingers."
And that's on a good day. When I woke up around 5:30 this morning, both hands were sore, & the left was closed almost completely & very reluctant to open. The most I could flatten it out to was about a 135 degree angle. Both feet were hurting at the base of the toes, & the left foot was swollen. Even bleary-eyed, I remembered the alphabet: WTF?! [:(]
Hobbling back to bed, I remembered when we first went on-line, my hand did the same thing, the mouse-clutch curve. The feet must've been injured perching precariously for too long on the edge of the cooler [to elevate the feet, so they don't swell]. I told Marty I was suffering the effects of over-indulgence & had my hangover in the hands & feet [from all I've read, better than in the head & mouth, but still *not* fun].
It's been hurting lots all day long, which is why I saved the word "excruciating" for this portion of the program. I've been limping worse than a badly-plotted thing & clearing far too much backlog on the recorded stuff.
The good news is, it's getting better. The main [mouse] hand can flatten out to at least 165 degrees now. It's nothing like bursitis, gall bladder, compressed disk, or other killer pains I've known, &, goodness knows, other folks certainly have worse every day, but I'm glad it's going away. It's a relief that it's a temporary embarrassment, rather than further degeneration [sounds like a wrestling tag-team or bad music group]. So, I'm off to find out whether another soaking in epsom salts will help.
Orry Voyer,
Filkferengi
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Did you like the geometry reference on the hand description? I put it in for you, professor. :)
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