Oh the agony!

[n4gix]

I've been suffering from rather severe carpal tunnel syndrome in my right wrist for the past year or so...

...which has really put a crimp in my modeling and programming, since I have to wear a rigid wrist brace anytime I'm not on the computer, and a slightly more flexible brace while working.

Up until late yesterday afternoon I was doing a lot better. Unfortunately, as I entered the garage so I could go to the store, I stooped over to pick up a bit of wood that'd somehow gotten blown over, and promptly lost my balance and fell. It was one of those "slow motion" events.

I managed to break my fall, but alas it was with my right hand! Unfortunately, I hadn't put on my rigid wrist brace for such a quick trip.

Damn but my wrist *really* hurts now! Ouch!

 

[Clutch Cargo]

Dang Bill, that musta hurt a bunch! Sure hope nothing broken.

I was riding my beach bike along the boardwalk where I had to put on the brakes quickly to avoid someone on skates who pop out in front of me. Flew right over the handlebars where I broke the fall landing on my wrist. Unfortunately, broke my wrist as well... laid up in a hand cast a good 6-8 weeks. That's about the closest I can relate to with pain around the hands.

Clutch

 

[lionheart]

I was riding my beach bike along the boardwalk where I had to put on the brakes quickly to avoid someone on skates who pop out in front of me. Flew right over the handlebars where I broke the fall landing on my wrist. Unfortunately, broke my wrist as well... laid up in a hand cast a good 6-8 weeks. That's about the closest I can relate to with pain around the hands.

Clutch

ACK!!! I have done something similar. Broke my wrist in wrestling class/PE. Kid literally jumped on top of me, and I had my wrist out to push him away, fell back, landed on top of me, and 'crack'....

The itching in that cast was so intense, and the horrible odors that would come out of there... ugghhh.. I finally realised I could curl the edge of a wire from a coat hanger and scratch the itches.. (that was almost erotic, to get rid of those itches... oh man... how I had dreamed of scratching those itchings, lol).


Bill, I hope and pray your wrist isnt fractured. If the pain continues, you 'might' think of getting it X-rayed... Infection might set in if its a bad fracture.


Horrible getting old. I swear sometimes when I pick up heavy things (like a TV) I can feel my arms bend in the bones and a wierd pain comes from it, like stress pain in the arms... ack..

 

[n4gix]

Thanks for the note of commiseration. Between the arthritis in my right shoulder with streaks of pain radiating *down* my arm, and the pain from CPS radiating *up* from my wrist, I'm sorely (pun intended) tempted to grab a couple of my carefully hoarded 500 MG Hydrocodone tablets!

 

[mdm248111]

Sorry to hear about that Bill.

It seems like quite a few people here have injured their hands in one way or another- quite ironic because the only way to manipulate a computer is with your hand... a few years back, I was playing baseball and I went to dive for the ball and my right fielder (I was playing 2nd base) ran right into me, breaking BOTH of my wrists at the same time

Hope you heal soon!

 

[bobbyjack]

Yup, nothing like a vicodin. Better yet, don't do that.

Bob

 

[n4gix]

Well, I certainly wasn't trying to fall down...

I left my hard brace on all night and my soft brace on all day. My wrist obviously didn't break because I've only the new normal amount of moderate ache again.

 

[Gman]

Fr. Bill,

I just finished listening to the Dorian Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and I hope that your injury will not keep you from practicing your pipe organ music.

Godspeed in your recovery!

Best regards
Gary

 

[JRobinson]

The "new normal"? LMAO Bill, hope you heal up soon.

Jim

 

[n4gix]

Thanks Gary and Jim. I did manage about an hours practice on the pipe organ this morning. I prefer to do my practice early while my joints are at their best after resting all night...

Yeah, "New Normal..." That unfortunately is a constantly moving parameter which seems to become progressively worse the more I age.

 

[Hughes-MDflyer4]

Yeah, "New Normal..." That unfortunately is a constantly moving parameter which seems to become progressively worse the more I age.

Then let's gather a group of scientists to develop a device to halt time. Throughout the universe. Any and all aging should then cease.

Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope your pain gets better soon!

 

[lionheart]

Then let's gather a group of scientists to develop a device to halt time. Throughout the universe. Any and all aging should then cease.

Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope your pain gets better soon!

Its funny that you mention that about aging.


Amazingly, nearly all of your cells in your body are reconstructed in 3 years, continuously recycling. A total of 7 years is the max a cell can exist in your body. Now, when you grow cells, they all grow alike, but as you grow 'older' they replicate 'old'. This means that instead of your skin staying the same, it starts to look older, bones lose their strength, etc. It 'is' a design input in our DNA.

They have found in old tablet studies of the Babylonians and other early mankind empires, that man, before the flood, did live an average of 1,000 years, usually around 900 years. This 'could' be accrued to the Earth possibly having a faster rotational spin for its 'day/night' cycle, but none the less, the great babylonian (or something) empire had only several kings in several thousand years, meaning that they were 'in office' for several hundred years, say 700 to 800, etc.

Back over to the animal kingdom, the Parot amazingly tends to keep living, as it reaches its maturity age of adulthood (for Parots), its aging stops, and it continues to live and hang out and squack and pine. They can easily live to 200+ years.

It would be interesting to see if we could actually 'tune' (adjust) DNA to allow for people to live longer and more healthy, stronger bones, and being 'skinny' more easily, lol...

 

[Bluebottle]

Sorry to hear that Bill.

I find it helps to switch between different devices, track-ball, graphics tablet and mouse (not very good) and use my left hand to click.
I usually end up with a ruler taped to my wrist to make me use my arm instead of my fingers but I don't have your shoulder problems.

 

[Mr.FaosFX]

Hope you feel better Bill. My aunt has carpel tunnel on her right hand also ... she got it from working over 19 years in a cake factory. Her job was mostly spreading the batter using spatulas at 17 pans per minute for 8 hours a day...the movement of the spatula irritated her tendons...she got 1 operation done but after a second visit to the doctor, he told her it was time to quit...she even filed a law suit against 'Sweet Street Desserts' look them up you'll find them and she won the claim ... unfortunately, they did not give her any cash but promised to pay for all medical bills which is better than anything I guess.

Sometimes I am do dissapointed at people who have so much potential in their lives and they waste it away working all these years in a factory ... in 19 years she could have become a doctor, a nurse, a lawyer, etc...instead, she kept working in the same factory .. started at 7.25/hr and after she reached $12/hr, they would not grant her any more pay increases per year...that got to suck.

 

[n4gix]

I spent an interesting nine hours at the VA Hospital in Chicago a few months ago, having both hands checked for CPS and degree of degradation. My left appears to be close to normal. It is a bone chip that, when stressed excessively, will cause irritation and pain.

The right hand on the other had shows advanced nerve sheath degradation. They assure me that it can be mostly corrected by (no cost) surgery, but...

...it would require at least two months of "down time" while healing, which is something I simply cannot afford.

 

[Mr.FaosFX]

I spent an interesting nine hours at the VA Hospital in Chicago a few months ago, having both hands checked for CPS and degree of degradation. My left appears to be close to normal. It is a bone chip that, when stressed excessively, will cause irritation and pain.

The right hand on the other had shows advanced nerve sheath degradation. They assure me that it can be mostly corrected by (no cost) surgery, but...

...it would require at least two months of "down time" while healing, which is something I simply cannot afford.

n4gix ... your health is #1 to anything. If its only two months, the other hand should do. Imagine today, two months from now, you would be healed, would you rather have greater degradation two more months from now or be better?

Neglecting our own health and well being is what reduces our lives to a dot. Most of us fail to see what life is most valuable when you feel better. Why live life at all if you cannot love yourself first? That, is self-denial.

You should think about this bud ... people are always like this, if you have a job that pays you $32/hr you suffer a great injury that almost leaves you cripped at the work place, to keep your job and keep the income coming, the person would rather remain cripped than loose their shiny job...I guess it is true, that its in our very nature to destroy ourselves by others or by oneself. Today, if you don't have any money in your pockets, your pretty much dead because we have become selfish with the thought of wealth and power....there are millions of people dieing from cancer every year but we all know there is a cure out there but organizations use the disease to manipulate and use it for their own wealth.

Remember that man that many a power generator from magnets? The united states government bought the plans of his design claimed it and buried it deep in the earth ... why? So nobody could do it. If someone invented a car that ran on water instead of fuel, they would kill that person in seconds, organizations would rather have us emptying our pockets than make life better. An synthetic oil was invented which was so good, that you would only have to change the oil in your car every 6 years I believe it was.....the creator of the product could not market, nor sell it because he was told this would destroy the economy.

Everything is for money, money this and money that.....the world revolves around money, you turn on the TV, you see money, your car runs on money, the fuel you put in costs money, the streets you use cost money, you have to pay rent, bills, everything is money, money, money, money, money, money, moneyyy....it is the biggest sin of man-kind and for it we will destroy ourselves, until their is nothing left. We are like a virus to our own planet.

 

[n4gix]

While not necessarily disagreeing with your viewpoint, I am nonetheless constrained by reality, irrespective of my distaste for it...

I live alone, have no remaining family, no local friends, and have extremely limited income, which is -lamentably- far below the "National Poverty Level."

Despite this, I have managed to acrue some savings, which I plan to use to fill in the income lost during convalescence. So, I do plan to have surgery scheduled for as early a date as may be available in 2012.

 

[bobbyjack]

Bill

"I live alone, have no remaining family, no local friends, and have extremely limited income"

And a following of FS folks that care about you.

Bob

 

[n4gix]

Bill

"I live alone, have no remaining family, no local friends, and have extremely limited income"

And a following of FS folks that care about you.

Bob

For which Bob, I am extremely thankful! Were it not for flight simulator, I'd have very little social interaction at all, if any.

 

[robystar]

I sympathize and agree with most of the other posters but it seems you are not alone at all, although social contacts on a personal level might be more helpful.
Many times you can relate to FS friends but they are often very reluctant to go any further than that.
I am fortunate enough to still have a wife, two dogs and just enough money to do whatever pleases me (as long as it does not cost me more than 100 USlds otherwise my other half will start complaining).
I think you have a couple of problems of which your health is the main one as it always is for everyone.
Once you feel better you will find the other problems are of minor importance and are easier to solve.
Your second main problem seems to be the lack of direct social contact and so it is with me as I no longer feel the urge to go out and socialize because there is always FS to dream away in and other interesting sites on the internet as well, that keep you away from having to confront the real world.
Your third problem is the fact that (speaking as a European) you live in the good old USA where social security is hardly existant compared to what we have here (not that an unemployed elderly person always has a good life, but at least his basic needs and insurance are guaranteed), and there is nothing else you can do but to find some way of getting by. Unfortunately, I think that FSX is a bad choice for that.
So here is my advice:
-start socializing, especially with rich widows, marry one of them that is interested in FS as well (limits the options of course);
- get yourself a dog you can take long walks with (listens to you, does not contradict you, is faithful) so as to have some physical exercise;
- stop yammering because you are not alone in this world and praise your blessings;
- and finally accept that you and me are getting old if we are fortunate enough to live that long.
And if all this does not work, smoke a joint and the world will feel a lot rosier (for a short while)!