FA+
Shop
Oh, my arms! (yay, recent hospital visit)
10 years ago
Well, at least I can type. So, my body and I are having a bit of an argument, and my body is winning.
My elbows aren't tolerating a lot of use, and went to the hospital with arm pain, to be diagnosed with... arm pain. The doctor was more helpful than that - before the diagnosis he made sure nothing serious was going on (like a cyst, infection, heart attack, or such). So, unexciting diagnosis is a good diagnosis. Because the level of triage I needed was below that of a skinned knee, I was at the emergency room for 6 hours.
Right now I can barely heft a large glass of water; and I seem to have about 90 minutes of activity where I can actively do stuff with my elbows. It's so limiting, and even after 90 minutes its quite painful. So, I'll be following the doctor's orders to be doing even less. Bleh, his advice goes against what keeps me going - but I will be changing what I do to live in less pain. My elbows are interrupting my ability to pull weeds, do the lawn, wrestle whales (on land or in the pool) play violin and exercise. I'd be really lucky to find a job that I could do well with this new limitation - even typing (to a smaller degree) aggravates the elbows and keeps them from settling down from a flare-up as quickly.
My elbows aren't tolerating a lot of use, and went to the hospital with arm pain, to be diagnosed with... arm pain. The doctor was more helpful than that - before the diagnosis he made sure nothing serious was going on (like a cyst, infection, heart attack, or such). So, unexciting diagnosis is a good diagnosis. Because the level of triage I needed was below that of a skinned knee, I was at the emergency room for 6 hours.
Right now I can barely heft a large glass of water; and I seem to have about 90 minutes of activity where I can actively do stuff with my elbows. It's so limiting, and even after 90 minutes its quite painful. So, I'll be following the doctor's orders to be doing even less. Bleh, his advice goes against what keeps me going - but I will be changing what I do to live in less pain. My elbows are interrupting my ability to pull weeds, do the lawn, wrestle whales (on land or in the pool) play violin and exercise. I'd be really lucky to find a job that I could do well with this new limitation - even typing (to a smaller degree) aggravates the elbows and keeps them from settling down from a flare-up as quickly.
This is the type of thing you think, oh, JUST want I needed! -_-