Hope everyone's 2014 is off to a good start!
Not sure how well mine has started -- I'm going to just lay it out there and admit that I'm afraid my wrists are causing carpal tunnel problems. I know I shouldn't attempt to diagnose myself, but I'm waking up every morning with hands completely numb. My hands go to sleep all the time during the day. They're just problematic in general, not including the pain that's pretty standard.
So I have a checkup appt on the 8th, and I guess I'll see what the doc thinks. Maybe this accounts for how cold my hands tend to be, as well. This is very, very new -- I've always, always had hot hands until the past few months. Now my boss razzes me for wearing gloves while I do my work, and really, gloves have been the most important winter clothing item of all -- which is really new, because in the past I usually wore no gloves at all, and my hands would be fiercely warm even then.
What I did not know was that -- carpal tunnel or not -- this is really irritating. I HATE that my hands are always going dead. I'm constantly "waking up" my hands, and it's getting on my nerves, not to coin a pun or anything. JUST STOP.
Otherwise -- ahem -- things aren't so bad around here. My dad had a lovely 90th birthday. My mom's fall a week ago did not cause any serious damage. Work is pretty good, busy as always. My fur babies are rambunctious and loving. Had a major car issue that turned out to be pretty easily fixed and not horribly expensive.
With regard to the possible carpal crap -- at the very least, I do have more than 3 months of sick leave stored up. So if something has to be done about the problem -- I'm vehemently not interested in surgery unless there are no other options -- at least I have paid leave available for it.
Y'all have a good one.