I have a new wrist & thumb support for my arthritic hand joints.
It really helps with the pain. But it's very inconvenient not being able to move my wrist or most of my thumb.

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Should be aaarghhh-thritis.

We're in the blustery, thundery, hot but wet season. Do my fingers and thumbs like it? They do not. And I'm just a few weeks off 59yo. That might have something to do with it too.

I cover them with diclofenac 2.3% gel every couple of nights, and the next day (after the first painful flex) they're a little better, but I'm open to handy tips. Or fingery tips.

I've been looking at why my thumbs might be hurting more than usual.
Apparently hot weather can increase the pain for some arthritis sufferers.
As well as the grinding aching pains, I'm now getting sudden stabbing joint pains as well.
Oh joy!
I thought it was only cold weather - I'm wrong again.

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On My Knees

It has taken a bit longer that I expected to get this far but I have now completed the grading of one of my modules. It wasn’t the written examination that took all the time, but the marking of the computational physics projects. This is always a slow job but for some reason it took even longer this year. Anyway, all components of the assessment for that module are now done and dusted and everything uploaded.

To add to the fun and games, last week I did the biannual trip to Naas for my anti-arthritis injections. I’ve been doing this regularly for some years now and it has become routine. When I first started I was told that there was a risk of one or both knees swelling up, but that has never happened. Until last week, that is. My right knee decided to swell up alarmingly. Although this was not really painful, I was forced to stay at home to rest and periodically apply a bag of ice. That worked well enough that I could go to last Friday’s concert (with the aid of a walking-stick) but it wasn’t until Sunday that I was properly recovered.

The alarm having passed I am now starting to feel the benefit of the jabs. I am planning sometime soon to walk from Maynooth to Dublin along the Royal Canal, that being the last leg of the National Famine Way. I want to be sure I can manage the 27km walk before attempting to do the full walk later in the summer. The weather is set fair for a few days so I might give it a go next week, assuming I manage to finish all my examining duties promptly. It’s the season finale at the National Concert Hall next Friday – followed by a long weekend break when I will be travelling a little, so I might try to do it on Thursday.

My next examination is not until Tuesday morning so, after several days of being shut away doing corrections, I can now spend a few days until the scripts are ready to collect doing numerous things that I’ve let slip while I’ve been busy. For one thing I have an inbox full of unanswered emails to attend to.

But for now I’m quite tired and in the mood only to vegetate.

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