Pain in the....

I have not been on the computer very much the last week. I did get on the internet for a little bit, you know I cant go cold turkey, but being on the computer was painful.

Why?

Well apparently all my mouse work injured my wrist and it was painful to use a mouse. It also caused much pain in my everyday life too. So I gave up my computer until I healed. It hurt so much. My husband thought it may be carpal tunnel, as he is a computer tech and is having issues with carpal tunnel right now. He insisted that I wear his wrist brace one night while we slept as he felt that It would help and I might stop complaining about all the agony I was in (what me complain, really would I do that, I am not over dramatic, am I?)

So I wore his brace for one night. It was horrendous the next day. My wrist was ten times worse than before I wore the brace. I think isolating an aching muscle is not the best treatment. I am pretty sure stretching and keeping it active is the recommended treatment. My husband bought me a mouse pad that has a wrist rest made of memory foam and that seemed to help a bit.

So after I got that darn thing off, I started icing and stretching and not using the computer and in no time, 4 days, I was healed. Hooray. I am so glad, and lucky, that I do not have carpal tunnel.

And now I am back to to keep you more abreast of my life. Don't you feel lucky?