Tale of a Light at the End of My Carpal Tunnel...
This blog has been a long time coming. You see...around about February of this year...I started noticing some numbness and tingling in my left hand... my first thought was, that I had just slept on it. It continued to get worse...actually starting in my right hand as well. In April...I had my annual physical with my PCP...and he did a little test. He had me put my 2 hands together in an upside down position for approximately 60 seconds. Guess what? The numbness and tingling instantly returned. He felt...that I had the start of carpal tunnel syndrome. Like I had mentioned in a previous blog...why must everything be a syndrome? Sounds so ominous. Just so happened that very afternoon...I had an appointment with my rheumatologist... so he told me to be sure and mention this to him. I got to my appointment...and he did the exact same test as my PCP did...and lo and behold, the numbness and tingling began just like that. The next step was to have an EMG...or what they usua