Thanks Max, Jill. Radial nerve entrapment I'm told today by the gp who wants to see a copy of the poem because she feels it might be a better representation of my condition. She was impressed that I have resorted to this mode of expression rather than provide a simple list of symptoms.
Bill
On 23/04/2015, at 1:29 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> Gosh, Bill, you unfold the sensations brilliantly.
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> I did not know till now that the word impingement had this medical use.
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> Having had for years and right now similar symptoms, I feel helped!
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> Rare compliment to a poem, which this surely is.
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> best from Max
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> [Is keyboarding responsible for my condition?
>
> I also blame the Labrador pulling on the leash…
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> and lying on it while asleep...]
>
>
> On Apr 21, 2015, at 15:46, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Impingement
>>
>> like a malignant electric drizzle,
>> sets off down your forearm,
>> stuttering, vibrating.
>>
>> Reaches, pulses, extends beyond
>> fingertips, especially
>> the middle finger.
>>
>> At other times it jolts, sends off
>> surges of uneven calibre. A flat
>> smattering spreads the jangling,
>>
>> colonising the back of your hand.
>> Then rare hiatus as though it's gone,
>> in a narrow range of positions,
>>
>> or a vaguely insistent, not unpleasant
>> tingling thrum. But move a certain way,
>> and feel a controlled, firm pressing down.
>>
>> No loss of strength as such
>> but you know the zap lurks,
>> will announce its forearm assault
>>
>> when it cares to. Like when you sit
>> at table or grip a steering wheel:
>> fine hot glass shards under skin.
>>
>> Sleep torpedoed nightly.
>> Your arm is no longer your own.
>> You dream of chopping wood.
>>
>> bw
>> 22.4.15
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