The other night, I joked to my friend Deb that since resting my hand didn’t seem to be healing it, I was going to try the radical method of *NOT* resting it just to see what happened. I was kidding but in all seriousness, I’ve hit the point where I’ve given this as much rest as I can afford to take off from work and now I need to just suck it up and work through the pain. I can’t rest my hands for all eternity, there is work to be done!

(Search for hand specialist continues. Know why doctor told me last week he accepted my insurance and when I got there was like j/k? Because last week he *did* accept it and they literally JUST dropped it. Sucks. Having a really hard time finding a doc that does accept it. Bleh.)

Anyway, working through the pain: In short, I have now hurt my left hand so badly that I’ve had to switch back to using the mouse with the right hand which, of course, is making the tendinitis in right bad again. It’s becoming a sad, sad farce.

But I have been promising myself all year that I am going to finish editing my Mistress Novel at the absolute latest by the end of October so that I can use November to concentrate on nothing but NaNoWriMo. Considering the fact that I’ve taken on a bigger role with NaNo this year, I really am not going to have time at the end of Oct so I need to finish ASAP.

(Side note: Strongly suspecting most of NaNoWriMo will be done with voice to text program this year. Should be interesting.)

So, today, I said screw it and made myself do 4 hours of editing. I spread it out over the course of the day so it wasn’t all in a row and, yeah, hands are completely miserable but I got a lot of good work in so I think it needed to be done. I’m also not going to be near the computer tomorrow for most of the day so they should get to rest again and recover.

(Represents me, resting my sad little hands.)

Anyone else think I jinxed myself in this post where I said I might finish early?

Still have 14,603 to go before I hit 150,000 which is my pre-NaNoWriMo goal. @#$&* writing this blog post really hurts. I’m stopping now. Pretend I wrote a conclusion.

We were at a friend’s wedding some time ago and in the middle of the ceremony, my husband leans over and whispers, “Why did they crucify Chuck Norris?” I look up and see this: Continue Reading »

A long while ago (I really don’t remember the date) I was playing Mario Kart with my boys (hubby & bro) when I had to stop after about 20 minutes because of massive pain in my right hand. Now, I once hurt my hand after a 12 hour marathon session but this was nothing like that. That was just “You idiot, why did you play 12 hours of Mario Kart in a row?” pain and this was something much worse. Also, 20 minutes? We’ve played Mario Kart for much longer than that with no issue.

So I pleaded diva hand and figured if I rested it for an hour we could play again later. Two weeks pass with my hand is hurting worse and worse each day even though I’m giving it rest and using a heat wrap on it. When I say “my hand” I literally mean my individual fingers going into the backside of my palm. (I clarify because every time I talk about this with someone they keep referring to the pain in “my wrist.” Wrist is fine, y’all.)

Now, obviously, I am on the computer all the time. It may have been Mario Kart that did me in but I’m assuming the computer mouse is the real problem. I thinking “Oh God, I have carpal tunnel.” I go to the doctor. Continue Reading »