yes, THAT finger

[sergebroom]

I had been planning to write a verbose entry in my blog today, but too many interesting things have been going on at the office for me to waste the time. I will have to get to the point. (Do I hear someone say "Huzzah!"?) Specifically, to the very point of my right hand's middle finger. Yes, that finger.

Last Wednesday, its joint that's closest to the nail became incapable to clench fully. It clenches almost as much as it normally would, but it doesn't do it fully. The joint won't even bend back. It's no more and no less sensitive than my other joints if I pinch it. If I bend it though, it definitely protests. It hasn't gotten worse or better since last week, and the rest of the finger is fine except for a very slight swelling. I didn't drop a brick on that finger. It just started happening suddenly. I have an appointment with my doctor on August 30, but I may decide to just go spend a whole day at the clinic this week. I pretty much am resigned to their telling me it's arthritis.

Drat.

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Yanno

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

Weather change there?

and have you ever really hurt that finger before? "Arther" will take up in injured joints faster, otherwise it pretty much affects more than one finger. It may be a tendonitis for whatever reason affecting that finger.

My original osteoarthritis diagnosis was in my early 30s, but then again I spent my life from 7-about 26s riding horses over fences, until I became allergic to horses (swell-up and turn red allergic, Benedryl put a dent in it but not much). And because of the high-torque, high-speed riding, I'm in the class of "if I had a quarter for every time I've hit the deck off a horse, I'd have a bunch o'dough."

I have arthritis in my hands to a certain extent but it just makes the joints sore and sometimes stiff. I'm hurting in several spots (hands, shoulders, knees) because our weather is in flux right now. And my shoulders are f!scked from a fall (right) and catching a cat in a falling carrier (left, much worse, I think I have an injured rotator cuff, but it is getting better).

Best wishes.

Re: Yanno

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about your arhtritis. Weather's never had any effect on me, but there's got to be a first time. On the other (ahem) hand, the weather hasn't been unusual. As for injuries... None, not to that finger anyway. Five years ago, I accidentally slammed a car door on the tip of my other hand's pinky. No break or fracture, but my nail fell off then grew back. A couple of months ago, I pinched my other middle finger's tip between bricks and again my nail fell off, and it's almost done growing back. As for the possibility of tendonitis... Well, it does flare up a bit when I clench things for too long and too hard(which makes it tough being a penny-pincher), but it usually makes my whole right hand tingly. This affects only the very tip of one of its fingers. Still, I don't know much about bodily problems and that may be it. Hopefully the doc will figure it out.

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