I have suffered an injury while engaging in my most favourite sport, and a few months back I took up an extreme version of this sport. The injury is incredibly painful. So much so that I actually couldn't sleep last night and had to take painkillers to get to sleep. But like all dedicated athletes, I am going to play through the pain today and jump back into the game. I injured my wrist, my right wrist. The baby finger is almost completely numb, and the ring finger is numb down one side. The wrist hurts when I move it, causing pain to shoot up to my elbow.
You may be wondering what crazy, dumbass thing I have gotten myself into now. What kind of sport would cause such an injury. Hockey??? Mountain biking??? Snowboarding??? Skateboarding???
No....the extreme sport I am referring to is........KEYBOARDING!!! Extreme keyboarding. With a special interest in extreme blogging and excessive mouse clicking. I am assuming the mouse clicking is what has caused the right hand to be more injured than the left. When I was a secretary, back in another lifetime, I had some carpal tunnel issues. My hands would go numb while I was typing and my watch would just feel like it was choking me. I don't wear a watch anymore. If I did, I surely wouldn't spend ever so many hours sitting here typing in my blogs and clicking on blog link after blog link reading. Add this new found sport to my already full fledged internet addiction, and you end up with keyboarding injuries.
Pass me the ibuprofen and a wrist splint, please.
Oh the places you will go
3 years ago
4 comments:
I keep a bottle of ibuprofen handy just for that same problem. Usually some rest will alleviate the pain for a while. I get it in both wrists and fingers. Some days the pain can be exquisite and on those days, I just read rather than write.
Now don't get me started on the pain in my neck and shoulders...
I read you daily, your one of my fixes. I'm an RN living in the Midwest, born and raised here but lived in Virginia for 25 years. Moved back here and married my highschool sweetheart. That parts wonderful, but moving back meant returning to a lot of emotions, hang ups, a narcistic mother, shall I go on. Anyway visit my blog sometime, www.tillirunoutofroad.blogspot.com, leave a comment so I know you stopped by. it's fairly new, is meant to be therapy, haven't opened up yet, but blogs like yours inspire me to. thanks cindy
Now this is how new I am at this, I replied on my own site, forgot it's not like myspace. so now fam and kids will read it anyway, what a hoot. but yes please put my place on your blogroll, I'm flattered you'd even ask. and if you want a really good laugh for the day, read my "comment" on my blog...
Ack...ice it ice it!
My keyboard sound weird today...I think my computer is about to go crazy in protest.
So it will be either the compt or my hands that go first!
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