Hand cramp

I wake up with a painful hand.

Aching, can't stretch it, desperate to stretch it, hurts to bend it... etc

It's a sort of... RSI... muscle cramp.

If my hand had any big muscle it would be a hard knot of agony.

The hand has spent too long not moving, holding a tablet, or a book, in place. The tendons are locked in position.

Waking up after a night of no movement... it's the surface of every tendon... doing its best to cramp.

For cramp: pressure, drink, flex, warmth...

It's difficult to apply pressure across all those tendons

So I sit on the hand. Warm it with my backside, use my weight to force the hand to open, close, get moving. Get sympathy and hot tea (to clutch and to drink:-) from Deb.

Finally sort it out. Use a pressure bandage for a final ten minutes of no sudden movements.

All fixed and forgotten... till this morning, I wake with the very surface of the tendons of one calf trying to twitch and cramp.

But why? No idea. Attention-seeking, perhaps?

This one's easy. Rub, drink, twist, rest. Soon sorted. But it wakes me up.

Such a complicated, thing, a body.

So many complaints. So much to analyse. So much more fun than ignoring or working through the pain.

So much trivia to post to a blog :-)

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper