Carpal Tunnel: Seize the Pain

When I wrote my MA thesis, I developed a bit of carpal tunnel syndrome. It isn't too bad most of the time-- I usually find it bothering me when I've done too much video gaming-- the "mouse click" hand gets sore.

Pregnant women apparently find an increased tendency to be bothered by it, too.

Writing my dissertation the last few weeks has caused my left hand's carpal tunnel to begin to flare up. Lucky me, I'm struggling today to write with a really really sore left arm, which I expect to only get worse. I can't "put it off" till the pain goes away. I have thing that are supposed to combat CTS-- the comfy wrist wrest, the chair at the right height. Etc. etc.

Crap. Maybe if I'm really lucky, some other situation which will add to the stress of trying to finish this thing will turn up. It reminds me a little of the moment in My Cousin Vinnie where after Marissa Tomei's character has yelled at Pesci's about her biological clock ticking away, he says something about adding another important thing to the outcome of this case.... and I don't even have a cool tux to wear to my future dissertation defense. :)