Comments on: Handy Doc

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:22:22 +0000

Having c-sections means refills for life.

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:43:52 +0000

Gretchen has “old” Vicodin? It’s my hard and fast rule that you NEVER let Vicodin get old.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:44:38 +0000

I generally don’t go to the doctor unless something is hanging out of me, but I got really scared when I reached down to lift up my son, and almost dropped him to the floor.

I have a wrist brace that I wear 6 hours a day or so, and I take the anti-inflammatory pill once in the morning, and then again in the evening if the pain gets bad. Three days in, and it’s starting to feel better. I have a huge session tomorrow morning, so that will be the real test. I’ll bring a whole case of Motrin with me, and maybe some of Gretchen’s old Vicodine.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:17:14 +0000

Mike: I have discovered that playing hockey at age 57 apparently can cause tendonitis (elbow). I can barely grab a carton of milk out the fridge with my left hand without dropping it before it makes it to the table. On a related note, my slap-shot is as good as it was when I was 20! All the Doc said was take anti-inflammatories?….what else?…I’ve been doing that!

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:55:56 +0000

It’s below. Right next to “Deploy Liver Recovery Systems – YES/NO/ALWAYS ON”

By: michael lee

michael lee — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:06:01 +0000

Is that below or above the “auto-correct all proper names to sound dirty” box?

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:45:33 +0000

Sharolyn wins. Just click “Settings”, then “Arms”, then uncheck the box next to “Make My Arms Numb As F*ck”.

Then do a master reboot just to be sure. (I can help with that. It involves a gallon of whiskey)

By: sharolyn

sharolyn — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:54:42 +0000

Have you checked your iPhone settings?
(Bad joke.)

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:54:24 +0000

Ah honey, everyone’s arms go numb from the elbow down. Especially when sleeping, blow drying their hair, carrying around children…no? Oh crap.

By: Julie Beveridge

Julie Beveridge — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:12:25 +0000

Well I know you cannot afford to hire someone, but perhaps, maybe slow down a bit for awhile to see if it helps.

By: aly hawkins

aly hawkins — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:17:46 +0000

I’m so sorry, Mikle. I will be praying for you. Look forward to a good report in a couple weeks. At which time you can go back to punch-heavy bar fights and competitive mouse clicking.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:23:55 +0000

Julie, a surgeon probably has financial options that a lowly piano player doesn’t. We can’t really afford to have other people do our work for us just yet.

By: Portcullischain

Portcullischain — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:13:02 +0000

It could always be worse Mike. Just think if you started to lose your rakishly good looks.
-PC

By: Daniel Semsen

Daniel Semsen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:44:14 +0000

Crap.
Sorry man. I sometimes feel like I’m slowly losing my hearing and will eventually lose the ability to make/hear music. It sucks…on so many levels.

By: sharolyn

sharolyn — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:22:51 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear this, Mike. What a drag.

By: Julie Beveridge

Julie Beveridge — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:12:18 +0000

Well praise GOD it was nothing more serious, like a muscle disconnection or major shoulder problems, or anything like oh I don’t know a heart problem. These things can be fixed, trust me have had it done. The bad news is that these are also symptoms of getting older (sorry man). The other thought I had is maybe you have home improvement wrist/hand/arm, and you need to take it easy. You know a surgeon who works with his precious hands would never do home improvements on his own. Just a thought. Will keep you in my prayers.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:40:13 +0000

Everyone who has tendinitis and carpal tunnel, raise your hand. Now slowly lower your hand to your lap and weep silently from the pain.

So, the diagnosis is two overlapping sets of symptoms, the shooting pain from tendinitis, the numbness from carpal tunnel syndrome. The doc put me on a wrist brace and anti-inflammatory meds to help with the tendinitis. He says that’s most likely being caused by overworking the hand (no jokes, I’m serious Zack). In a week or so, that should go away and we can see what the remaining status of the carpal tunnel is, and if we need to start treating it.

Uggh. I hate feeling like my livelihood is tied up in these few fragile strands of nerve and sinew.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:51:29 +0000

Um, scary? Hope all is well, dude. If you need me to follow you around and slap people for you, just ask. Slappity slap slap.