OWW!!!

Last spring, I began experiencing a numbness and tingling in my left hand - the thumb, pointer finger and social finger, to be precise. When I say numbness and tingling, I want you to imagine the worst and most awful time your foot ever went to sleep, and then multiply it by about 50. It always happened in the middle of the night...I would wake up and half my hand would have no feeling! It would take 20+ minutes of me sitting on the toilet shaking

and rubbing my hand to get the blood back into it. Once the circulation came back and my fingers turned from white to red and blotchy, the tingling would turn into stinging burning pain. At that point, I would be wide awake, and I would go back and try to get back to sleep.

This happened at least 3 nights a week, until I finally saw a surgeon and scheduled a surgery to have my carpal tunnel release surgery done at the end of February. I wore the wrap for 10 days after, and could not get the area wet. Then, once the stitches were removed, I could get it wet in the shower, but was not allowed to soak it (poor Larry has been washing the dishes for the past month!)

But, here it is, two months later. Just as my doctor said, the worst of the pain is on the pinky finger side of the lower palm. But I am following the nurse's suggestion, and rubbing vitamin E oil into and all around the scar. Every day I see an improvement. And every night, I sleep the night through!