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Nov. 11th, 2003 01:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseI hate the internet today. it is wrong that I have to include "-cock" in a search, and even wronger that I'm still getting too many things I'm really not looking for. I blame slash fiction for this. I'm looking up 'scraped feeling hot hands.' and I get dirty dirty links! I just want a doctor page, not roswell fanfiction. And not anyone playing doctor, either, thank you very much.
While I couldn't find anything on that problem, I did look into my thumb/wrist pain of the last week plus. Looks like it's just more of the same that I had been having. deQuervain's Tenosynovitis:
"Another term used to describe deQuervain's or tenosynovitis is "triggerfinger." Trigger finger happens when the finger or thumb is flexed, and because of inflammation in the tendon and sheath, there is resistance to re-extension. This causes a trigger effect where one experiences a snapping or catching sensation when attempting to re-position the finger or thumb that can sometimes be loud enough to be heard."
Which is when I cry, swear, or drop things. Sometimes all three. Plus I jerk my hand back so fast I usually manage to hurt it again. At the con, some of my friends would wince and make me stop moving my hand at all when I did something like that because they said it hurt just watching me hurt. :) And I would stop, but the problem is that even though my hand has been hurting for a couple of months now, it was fine for 26 years (except for the ganglion cyst, and the scraped feeling, but they were both different), and so I forget that I can't use my hand to do X until it's too late. Right now, I am incapable of opening jars, and just barely able to open sodas--I had to ask clerks at stores if they'd mind rather than risk re-injuring myself. I do remember not to do that, at least. I don't remember not do dig through the books and such in my bag, or not to stick cash in or pull change out of my right front pocket, or hundreds of other little things that don't even hurt most of the times I do them.
I'm going to have to find a splint of the sort that actually immobilizes my thumb--all the ones I have around here, I think, are wrist specific, or very very general, such as ace bandages.
And the dishwasher just did weird things involving not getting any water in it for the rinse cycle, and now it's made the kitchen air too hot and slightly scorched smelling or something, and the smoke alarm keeps beeping randomly. Which I can't do anything about now. The float didn't look like it was caught on anything (for those not up on their washer terminology, this is the 'twirly-dealie' in the front corner that tells the washer when there's enough water in it, and if something gets stuck under it, it'll think there's enough water even when there's none.), and no water would go into the machine no matter where I restarted the cycle, which it has done before, but luckily I remembered what had worked the last time I had this problem, and when I started the washer on the rinse cycle, it started filling with water, so it's better, at least for now, though I'm going to turn it off for the night and hope the alarm stops beeping at me and I can go to bed. And I'm going to ask my dad why it is doing that tomorrow, and if he doesn't have an answer, we're complaining to sears.
While I couldn't find anything on that problem, I did look into my thumb/wrist pain of the last week plus. Looks like it's just more of the same that I had been having. deQuervain's Tenosynovitis:
"Another term used to describe deQuervain's or tenosynovitis is "triggerfinger." Trigger finger happens when the finger or thumb is flexed, and because of inflammation in the tendon and sheath, there is resistance to re-extension. This causes a trigger effect where one experiences a snapping or catching sensation when attempting to re-position the finger or thumb that can sometimes be loud enough to be heard."
Which is when I cry, swear, or drop things. Sometimes all three. Plus I jerk my hand back so fast I usually manage to hurt it again. At the con, some of my friends would wince and make me stop moving my hand at all when I did something like that because they said it hurt just watching me hurt. :) And I would stop, but the problem is that even though my hand has been hurting for a couple of months now, it was fine for 26 years (except for the ganglion cyst, and the scraped feeling, but they were both different), and so I forget that I can't use my hand to do X until it's too late. Right now, I am incapable of opening jars, and just barely able to open sodas--I had to ask clerks at stores if they'd mind rather than risk re-injuring myself. I do remember not to do that, at least. I don't remember not do dig through the books and such in my bag, or not to stick cash in or pull change out of my right front pocket, or hundreds of other little things that don't even hurt most of the times I do them.
I'm going to have to find a splint of the sort that actually immobilizes my thumb--all the ones I have around here, I think, are wrist specific, or very very general, such as ace bandages.
And the dishwasher just did weird things involving not getting any water in it for the rinse cycle, and now it's made the kitchen air too hot and slightly scorched smelling or something, and the smoke alarm keeps beeping randomly. Which I can't do anything about now. The float didn't look like it was caught on anything (for those not up on their washer terminology, this is the 'twirly-dealie' in the front corner that tells the washer when there's enough water in it, and if something gets stuck under it, it'll think there's enough water even when there's none.), and no water would go into the machine no matter where I restarted the cycle, which it has done before, but luckily I remembered what had worked the last time I had this problem, and when I started the washer on the rinse cycle, it started filling with water, so it's better, at least for now, though I'm going to turn it off for the night and hope the alarm stops beeping at me and I can go to bed. And I'm going to ask my dad why it is doing that tomorrow, and if he doesn't have an answer, we're complaining to sears.
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Date: 2003-12-03 09:49 pm (UTC)