Well - I kinda have a RD here who doesn't want to be bothered. He felt my
hands and that was it. He's ordered blood tests for every three months, has
renewed my prescriptions and I have yet to hear anything from him. I'm
seriously considering trying for a different doctor. Oh -  he also said he
didn't think I had anything except severe fibromyalgia and that they were
finding that fibromyalgia could now affect the joints. Yeah, that was a
wasted visit.

On the other hand, I'm going through some dental work, as is my hubby. We're
getting everything done that we've put off because of money. My son was
saying there goes his inheritance. LOL We told him we'd see to it that they
each got their 50 cents. The rest was ours. LOL

Now aren't you sorry you asked?
DeeTee

lordy!  i don't want to bore you.  but, ok, you asked for it.<heheheh>

i'm currently in a thumb-spika cast, just waiting for feb.2nd to get here.
can't wait to get this thing off and start using that hand again--9 more
days!  i hope.  i hope.  next comes the rehab/ot..

my surgeon put me in this cast, to protect my repaired thumb tendon, during
my post-op appointment.  this thang's so loose now, it almost comes off by
itself.  that makes me feel like that wrist is no longer 3 inches thicker
than normal <one-handed applause--i slap my forehead when i want to hear
myself clap.>.

still getting shooting-type twinges and deep aches--- but hey, "it's alive!
it's alive!"  still taking percocet for that, as needed.  think the percocet
is not working as well as it had been, but hey, it worked great when i
needed it most.

funny thing about the carpal tunnel stuff in my right hand.  (it's been
happening more intensely and with more frequency, probably from
overuse---and that's not funny, nor is it peculiar.)  i've just this past
week and accidentally discovered that if, when it starts acting up, i turn
my head as far as i can to my left and keep it there, i can control the
carpal tunnel symptoms and even make them stop.  weird that!  but, i'll take
any relief i can get.  that same thing also seems to help with my ulnar and
shoulder problems, too--not as completely, but enough to be tolerable..
sooo, i'm thinking . . .<sniffing for smoke> . . . that someting in my neck,
and not their corresponding dx's, is causing these issues.  will have to
address that, when this wrist thing is finito.

ok.  enuff boring "me" stuff.

kate

thank you sweetie both you Kate and Dee Tee

How are you both doing?