Get A Grip

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Some kind of weird injury in my hand is causing me to drop things. I don't think it's actual hand weakness; I think it's just that the little pain spasms when I try to grip things are making my hand pop open reflexively. I'm not sure how I got it, but I suspect I've been weeding the garden and supporting myself on my knuckles. Whatever it is, it's sure as hell making things awkward at work.

People wonder why I never wear open-toe shoes to work even in summer. It's because dropping a huge coffee table book on your foot? Really painful. I'm not about to add injury to injury here.

Comments

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

Possibly mild tendinitis. A soft wrist wrap will help. :)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

That's my guess, too. It's just a weirder kind of tendinitis than I've ever had--I'm used to going "Ow! Pain! I will stop doing that now!" but not to my hand dropping things without checking with my brain first. That's new--and it is strange not to be able to quickly pinpoint whether a sensation was a reflex or weakness.

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's how my tendinitis started at first. Totally freaked me out.

[marag.livejournal.com]

When I was doing archaeology back in the day, gripping a trowel or shovel all day and leaning on my knuckles, my hands would swell up and make it impossible for me to grip things.

In my case, it didn't stop until we moved on to the "sorting artifacts" stage of the process. I had to stop doing archaeology.

[bean-bunny.livejournal.com]

Crap, has this ever happened before?

I was having hand/arm pain that was getting so bad that I started not being able to do shit at work. I thought they were going to have to put me down out back until I took an alieve. I don't know what's in that shit, but one totally cured me.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

People wonder why I never wear open-toe shoes to work even in summer. It's because dropping a huge coffee table book on your foot? Really painful. I'm not about to add injury to injury here.

Also, it hurts like a mo-fo when you run over your own toes with the book cart.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Aleve is good stuff. It's the only thing that even touches the pain for most of my headaches, and when I had a couple of bad teeth, it was the only thing that let me function at all.

Better living through Chemistry!