Margaret and I woke up at 5:20 to drive David to the airport, where we entrusted him to the tender mercies of his airline at O’Hare. So far, so good.
Oh, and Tripp (“I’m not a doctor, nor do I even play one on TV”) thinks my thumb is hyperextended or dislocated or something like that. I will try to call for a doctor’s appointment today. [Later: Called the Primary Care Physician. Ha! Waiting for call back.] [Later still: Attending nurse called back; they think it’s tendonitis (bonus points for Wes), and I'm supposed to take two naproxen daily with food, treat the thumb with warmth, rest it to the extent possible, and call them back in ten days or two weeks if this regimen doesn’t help.]
Oh, and the review for promotion may be back on — my faculty colleagues are trying to insist on it —but don’t hold your breath, nothing’s been scheduled yet.
Posted by AKMA at May 16, 2003 10:25 AM | TrackBackNote to all: I merely agreed with the learned Doctor of the Church. I am but a lowly Baptist. I would never dare make such a guess...at least not where it would get public exposure!
Posted by: Tripp at May 16, 2003 10:31 AMI'm not a doctor either, but...
It sounds like tendinitis to me. Even the big twinges from small stresses. When I had it, it felt like someone was sticking an ice pick into my thumb. Check out http://www.arthroscopy.com/sp04014.htm.
I suspect your doctor will ask you what you do with your thumb, then tell you it's tendinitis, and recommend rest and ibuprofen or some other NSAID, possibly a cortisone injection.
But by all means, check it out with your physician.
"Doc, it hurts here whenever I do this...."
Posted by: Wes at May 16, 2003 12:44 PMInsistent colleagues are probably better than breath holding... me, Ive just been praying.
Posted by: Jane Ellen at May 16, 2003 01:14 PMSo it comes down to whether I have a jock injury or a geek injury. Guess that with the crowd where I hang out (Frank excepted), a geek injury has more cachet. . . .
Posted by: AKMA at May 16, 2003 04:40 PMHoney, it ain't about cachet. It's about pain and lack of same.
I like those microwaveable cloth-covered grain (?) gizmos you can get at the local pharmacy. I have a super-duper economy size so I can warm up my whole forearm, but of course you'll want something smaller.
Naproxen, huh? Maybe I'll have to give that stuff a try.
Posted by: Dorothea Salo at May 16, 2003 09:52 PMI think we ought to all treat each other with warmness a little more often, not just the thumbs. :-)
Posted by: Mark at May 16, 2003 10:18 PMwell, good to know - i can drop some drugs off (botting company in the home town results in cheap over the counter stuff...). i promise, however, that i am only a supplier of the over the counter stuff...
And if you'd like some student back-up on the "faculty instistence" front, just holler!
Posted by: heather at May 17, 2003 07:13 PM