I use my hands for a lot of things: knitting, writing, coding, art, harassing my new cat, gaming, typing, things like that.
Pictured, new cat
And now my thumb is dinked up.
Pictured, dinked up thumb
The first knuckle feels like fireworks in the worst way when I try to straighten it and it feels like I am trying to crackle my thumb but I simply can't. It's the worst in the morning unless I have kinesthetic tape on it (what athletes use for sprains and things like that) to keep the thumb straight.
Turns out, in my search of finding splints for my thumb (because I'm running out of tape, which I use to keep from sanding the skin off my pinky finger while I write), what I have is called "Trigger Finger" (or "Thumb" in my case). It just needs rest and ice. Basically the RICE method:
Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation
It's a thumb and it's on my dominant hand so it's super hard to not use it, thus I modify. I regularly keep it wrapped up and iced or heated up when I can. It doesn't look like a forever injury but I'm certainly going to try to take care of it so it won't become one. I kinda need my hand.
I most likely got it from knitting since I had some tough projects recently. It doesn't hurt after the morning or at all if it is wrapped up so I can still write and type but I do need to take it easy. Which sucks. I despise taking it easy. But I don't want the hand injuries that people older than me have so that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I have some time between books since The Glassman's audiobook is done and promo is underway and my next book, The Harlequin, is chugging along on schedule, it just has to go to my artist Edge next (who has done the covers of all my books). This means I can take some downtime for my hand.
For the meantime: Ow.
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