Hand Problems

[stickmaker]

Dear God, I hate my hands...

I almost killed Ringtail, my fourteen year old cat. I was making lunch, and he waked by just as I dropped a jar of Miracle Whip. Fortunately, it was a very glancing blow, and doesn't seem to have hurt him. He didn't even make a noise; just jumped around and looked at the jar, startled.

I'm not sure the doctors even believe there's a problem. It's just like when I was having all that pain in my right hand and arm, twenty years ago. I had to endure for nearly a decade before it got bad enough for their machines to detect the problem.

I'm not sure either the cats or me will last that long with this problem.

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Re: Numb hands

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Just finished with a neurologist. He did the cattle prod and Chinese wire torture tests (the usual EMG stuff) and found enough deficit to justify an MRI of my head and neck. The verdict: There's a slight constriction of one nerve channel, but it's not enough to cause my symptoms.

I had surgery on my right elbow and wrist nearly twenty years ago, to relieve impact-related neuropathies. This is different. I can lean my head back and cause the numbness to get worse. I do have arthritis in my spine, but it supposedly isn't bad enough to cause this, either.