You think it's gone, my friend, but it comes back again

[sovay]

I have sprained my thumb. At least, I have no other explanation for a restricted range of movement, a considerable amount of pain, and twinges and aches that run down into the heel of my hand whenever I try to grasp something, with the result that I cannot perform a lot of normal daily tasks with my right hand, don't even ask about texting. I don't know what caused it. For about a week I thought it was getting better, and as of yesterday it definitely is not. We just made dinner and now half my hand is on strike. Typing is considerably slower than it should be. This is especially aggravating because I saw two movies yesterday that I want to write about. Unrelatedly, I would like to sleep at night again, sometime, ever.

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[sovay]

They get in the way of eg turning light switches on/off; drinking mugs of tea; eating dinner.

All of these things within the last twelve hours! (Okay, not tea, but mugs of water, which I have to remember not to take out of the microwave with my injured hand.)

Thank you. I hope your fingers/hands/wrists are currently treating you decently.

[lilysea]

Thank you! ^_^

Both hands/wrists are somewhat sore today - especially the right - because I

a) DARED to have a shower and wash my hair! (I have SUPER-short hair because my hands HATE washing my hair. And forget about EVER brushing or combing it - I had to choose a hairstyle that can cope with literally never being brushed or combed.)

b) DARED to pick up and move a traffic cone / witches hat that was blocking the top of the wheelchair ramp

but by all accounts, neither of them are as bad as your thumb is right now! <3