Barb & Dabbo

I had a very weird painful wrist awhile ago, from doing the heavy clean up around here. Tweaked the joint, tendon or nerve or something. If i kept using my wrist it would begin to hurt in my elbow and even up into the front of my shoulder. DC thought my ulnar nerve had got pinched or bound up some how - i remember something doing a pop when I lifted those mud boggin tires and after that in the evening was when it started hurting.

At the chiro appt i asked him about it since he had helped my elbow joints when they were hurting a couple yrs ago.
So he asks questions , checks the joints and bones of the wrist and has me lean/brace against the table when it's upright.
He takes my arm/hand and works the joint then gives some medium pulls, jerks, shakes and stretches.
It hurt a little bit more the next day but after than the pains just faded away.
So my hubby has been having a sore wrist too, I told him about what the chiro did for mine- he wouldn't try an appt though - but gave me his arm & wrist to try the same kind of stuff on in it.
He says it helps and has me do that every couple of days- but he has to keep using it at work...

Any hoo maybe your knee needs something similar dabbo?

Thats a great idea....I think I'll ask him when I go back on friday.
thank you Jo!!

only a short note.. over my prents right at the moment!!! If I did not have bad luck as the saying goes, my computer crapred out, my link to the world... oh well hope to have a new one soon !!! KEEP safe all and hope pain free, my RSD that has been in my right toes and arch has started to migrate up my shin burning and stabbing fun and with winter each brush of of my pants... ouch!!!! This in addition to the TOS up top and the RSD up top... yeee HAW what a ride. I think the cold weather just perpetuates the whole ball of wax and sure some time in a warm climate would help, Each front that comes past, my body is able to predict better than any forecaster! Than again all of you know what I mean and are in the same boat!!! GOD BLESS ONE AND ALL!!! MARK~N~GOOBER

Mark Nice to hear from you. Would have liked to meet up with you this week but I'll let you know when I'm coming to see Dr. T.

Well, let's see. I'm getting good at pin care. Lot's of fun. Cleaning the pins on my son's leg. There are four that come at and are attached to a long rod. They have to be cleaned daily so they do not get infected. That would be disasterous. We have a visiting nurse everyother day. The x-rays were very interesting. He has three screws piecing the bone together which I hadn't known about. The staples come out on Monday. I still don't know when he is going to school. I have him working on school work about 1 hour a day to keep him doing something besides tv and video games. He is in good spirits though. Very up beat.

My 17 year old daughter was just made Captain of the Swim Team which made her very happy. It looks good on College Applications also.

Life here is so hectic I never even know what day it is. Hope everyone is well. Linda

Dabbo -

I think you need to get to an ortho knee surgeon right away - they usually start with three cortisone shots, then the MRI and later arthroscopic surgery on the knee. Hopefully nothing worse and no knee replacement. But well could be that you're scratching bone on bone, or sharp calcium / bone against a ligament, either of which is terribly painful and just gets worse. Of course, I'm going off of past reports I've read, and have no idea what is really going on with you - just ideas here. So get going into that ortho!!! (bossy, aren't I?)

Jo - can we tie you down for a week? I picture you like a whirling dervish and I just want to sit you on the couch and put a t.v. control in your active hands...haha. Actually, you are so great to always be so active. I hope it will keep the TOS as down as possible.

Mark - I've missed you!!! I've been so sick, completely bedridden. The insurance is bugging me with threats to stop benefits because they made a mistake and thought I wasn't at the doctor - then neither the doctor nor my attorney's secretary did anything to fix it - then they got mad at me when I faxed the adjuster the date I was at doctor! So frustrating. Still no referral to the new pain doc - and the PTP's secretary just says, "oh, I haven't seen anything..." That's because SHE's supposed to do the request - NOT the other way around! Frustrating again. Then insurance set up three exams in Bev Hills - untold hours away from me now - I can't travel at all right now - and the latest appt. is in July of 08!

I am so bedridden, and yet, now is when I need to make calls, etc., and I just can't.

Now is when I need my attorney to take some action on my behalf, but they just aren't going to...and PTP is waiting for them to send him some records...the whole thing is really a game of each one pointing the finger at the other, and I'm the only one who does take action and gets chewed out by a secretary who doesn't know the law that I am a beneficiary under the insurance contract and the adjuster is required to administer the claim with me, as for ordinary administrative duties - aside from the litigation. The right of "no contact" is with me, the applicant, NOT her the adjuster - (unless she has a personal harassment action, which is not the case.) I HATE it when people don't know the law...

AAAaaaahhhh, back to bed...enough! The inflammation is so bad - the area around my neck bloats out like miniature pillows...thank God the leg pains are subsiding...

Poor Mark - I hope your pain starts to ease up...the RSD is so painful...do you have deep bone pain also? I wonder if you've developed the fibromyalgia pain.

I am SICK of doctors who do not understand TOS and do not realize the full comport of the syndrome. (If I hear it is "just the nerves going to the hands and once they have PT they recover" anymore I will go on a screaming rampage. Or "somatosization" or whatever it is called - I / we are not imagining this pain, nor is it some crazy impulse, I am positive that there is a real reason, (as in chemicals or blockages too small to detect) that causes the continuing TOS type pain. Stupids have hit the wall with me!!!)

Pray for me to get a handle on my anger right now...

Tam- I must not whirl fast enough LOL cause 5 more pounds have managed to attached themselves to my body

Here's some snow pics from the other nite- our first snow this winter

Great pics jo, that first one looks like it could be on a christmas card.

for the room. I am down for the count with some nasty bronchitis.

Jo - great pictures....

Shelley- I hope you get over the bronchitis quickly- hacking that junk up is no fun.

Mark- you're right about being able to predict a front before weather forecasters!! We've been having 30 deg. swings in the high every couple of days down here. Tired of it and all the fronts and pain they bring with them.

Tam- Thank you for your concern. I hope you're getting control of the anger over "The Stupids" (I like that term!!).... they are a frustrating group, right??? "its all in your head".... "you're just looking for a fix...." Yeah, I LOVE spending hours in the ER and doc offices. please.
I'm going to an ortho on Tuesday; I had my Primary care doc refer me there last Wed. I wish I could have gotten in last week, because it just gets worse. If i put the littlest bit of pressure on the outside of my quads, near that ligament the INSIDE of my knee feels like a knife jammed into it. Throw that on top of the back of my knee kiling me. sorry for ranting (again).

today I (revised...)
just went to the minor medical place near here.... I figured it would be better than the ER. Nothing new about the knee though, Doc thinks it is a soft tissue injury and told me to keep my weight off of it until I go to the ortho on Tuesday. SO, now i'm on crutches...err, um, A crutch. watching me walk/hobble will make you laugh!!

dabbo - did he take an Xray? An MRI? Without those, I don't know how he can know what's goin' on...