Arm update for Week 15 and OW GODDAMMIT
Oct. 2nd, 2003 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo up until last night my arm was behaving fairly well this week. I've been able to use it almost normally; I still can't lift it over my head, but I've been finding myself using it for more and more normal day to day things.
I've been getting a LOT of nerve reconnect activity. And heavier this week than before as well. I've started getting a slight amount of lift in my thumb when trying to do the thumbs-up test; I can manage maybe about a quarter inch. But I've also been getting nerve pings further up my arm lately, up around my elbow, which is new. I'd had some numbness up there, and these nerve pings are making that start to go away.
Last night though I got a couple of really heavy ones. That actually hurt.
And after I went to bed I couldn't get comfortable to save my life, and kept disturbing poor![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird as well with tossing, turning, and finally sitting up in teary-eyed frustration just because that was the only position I could manage that didn't annoy the crap out of my shoulder and upper arm, despite my having liberally applied Tiger Balm.
It doesn't help that something is fucked up with the arrangement of our futon, such that my side of it feels "crooked" somehow and keeps disturbing my ability to sleep. It's been this way through a mattress change so I have no idea what's causing it, but last night it was driving me batshit. I wound up throwing all my pillows on the floor -- I've had to keep sleeping with pillows to prop my arm on -- and sleeping on the sheepskin rug by the bed. Or at least trying to sleep. I know I got a few hours because I remember dreaming, but it was scattered at best. Plus sleeping on the floor wasn't making my back very happy, though right then my back was farther down the priority chain than my arm.
Today, I'm wearing one of the arm socks I'd had under my brace when I was still using it, just for the extra warmth. Stupid cold foggy morning.
I've been getting a LOT of nerve reconnect activity. And heavier this week than before as well. I've started getting a slight amount of lift in my thumb when trying to do the thumbs-up test; I can manage maybe about a quarter inch. But I've also been getting nerve pings further up my arm lately, up around my elbow, which is new. I'd had some numbness up there, and these nerve pings are making that start to go away.
Last night though I got a couple of really heavy ones. That actually hurt.
And after I went to bed I couldn't get comfortable to save my life, and kept disturbing poor
solarbird as well with tossing, turning, and finally sitting up in teary-eyed frustration just because that was the only position I could manage that didn't annoy the crap out of my shoulder and upper arm, despite my having liberally applied Tiger Balm.It doesn't help that something is fucked up with the arrangement of our futon, such that my side of it feels "crooked" somehow and keeps disturbing my ability to sleep. It's been this way through a mattress change so I have no idea what's causing it, but last night it was driving me batshit. I wound up throwing all my pillows on the floor -- I've had to keep sleeping with pillows to prop my arm on -- and sleeping on the sheepskin rug by the bed. Or at least trying to sleep. I know I got a few hours because I remember dreaming, but it was scattered at best. Plus sleeping on the floor wasn't making my back very happy, though right then my back was farther down the priority chain than my arm.
Today, I'm wearing one of the arm socks I'd had under my brace when I was still using it, just for the extra warmth. Stupid cold foggy morning.
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Date: 2003-10-03 07:29 pm (UTC)Hugs back! As I just said in my answer to Brom on this post, the GOOD thing about my arm giving me hell yesterday is that it seems to have heralded improvement today.
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Date: 2003-10-03 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-03 07:25 pm (UTC)So I suppose I can put up with my arm giving me hell if it IS a sign of healing. :)