I saw a hand specialist today about my rapidly worsening hands - the diagnosis was myalgia which basically means muscle pain. That's a good thing in that it's not a symptom of something more serious (e.g. carpal tunnel, etc), but a bad thing in that the next step is to not use my hands for at least a week. So if I am not easily reachable by the usual methods, the best bet is to try calling or just drop by; I think there's a bluetooth headset somewhere that works with my phone [yes, holding the cell phone is painful].
For perspective on what this is like, I nearly was in tears at least twice due to the pain - today when I saw and filled out all the forms for the doctor's appointment [they measured that same thing later, in how much pain I was in to grip things - I'm not sure the scale but it was a 10 for each of three trials for each hand], and yesterday when I went to vote. That's a longer story, new paragraph.
Our voting place moved to the fire station nearby, I went to vote in early evening and there wasn't any line. Usually there's no problems and I'm on the list, but they couldn't find me so I had to fill out a provisional ballot; signing my name was already painful and when they asked me to fill out all the info on the envelope it was too much. I asked if there was some other way to fill it out, and the lady who was helping me said she could fill it out. I am ever so grateful to her for filling out all those details for me!
In general I don't notice it much, as I have a fairly high pain tolerance for non-sharp pains. It's worst and less ignorable when actually using my hands though, so I should really finish this post and start resting. See yall in a week or more!
