Carpal Tunnel
To further complicate matters…
Two and half years ago, I was diagnosed with carpal tunnel in both hands. I’d made an appointment with a hand doctor because both of my hands were going completely numb in my sleep, giving me pins and needles so bad it would wake me up several times a night. During that initial visit, my [...]
Trippin’. Guilt Trippin.
Sitting at dinner with a friend the other night who happens to be an avid runner, I listened with jealousy as she talked about the 10k she was training for. I lamented about my recent hip and knee issues that have kept me from my favorite sports lately, and also noted that the carpal tunnel [...]
To do.
Thank god for long weekends, because lately, the list of things I have to take care of in this 27 year old body has been growing. Between diabetes, my hip, my knee, and my wrist issues, here’s the short list of things I’m supposed to do every day: Tendon gliding exercises for wrist Ice my [...]
Oh for wrist’s sake…
Its been eight months since I went in for carpal tunnel release surgery in my right hand, and I’d love to be able to say things are picture-perfect. But with the way the last few weeks have gone, I can’t say that with confidence. In addition to still not having my full strength back in [...]
(Ulnar) Nervous Breakdown
I recently visited my awesome hand doctor for a follow-up to the carpal tunnel surgery I had back in June. As I’ve mentioned in blog posts before, my decision to have carpal tunnel release surgery was based on the fact that I couldn’t sleep through the night due to numbness in my hands waking me [...]
Logging and jogging…
Yesterday I stacked up three (count ‘em!) doctor’s appointments in a row because all of those docs happened to be in the same building. I went to see my CDE first (along with my 5 pages of excel data as noted below), then the hand doctor for a post-op, then the knee doctor for a [...]
Guess who’s back…
Sorry the major lack of bloggage, I have been recovering from carpal tunnel release surgery in my right hand. Surgery went off without a hitch on Monday, and thanks to my incredible friends and family, I have been well taken care of. Between my roommate building me a post-op recovery nest on the couch, the [...]
Looking forward to a full 8 hours.
I just got back in to town after two weeks on the road for work and plenty of fun. And nothing says “welcome home” like surgery scheduled for 7am the next morning. Yep, that’s right. I’ve had enough of this pesky carpal tunnel, and tomorrow morning I head in to the OR for carpal tunnel [...]
Judy has ALL her fingers!
Don’t get me wrong - I love doctors. I need doctors. My dad was a doc, both of my grandfathers were doctors, and I work in an industry that is all about loving doctors. But sometimes, I have to bristle at their bedside manner. And it usually has to do with conversations about diabetes. A [...]
