it's too hard to type tonight
Sep. 21st, 2003 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elsajeniOkay. This is going to be a short post because, for reasons I am about to explain, my typing is somewhat impaired at the moment. For the same reason, I am going to use LiveJournal's spellcheck feature for the first time in my recollection. Let us hope, for the sake of my innocent readers, that it works well enough to make this entry readable.
I am typing minus one finger. This is due to symptoms in that one finger that I fear are indicative of tendinitis, a disorder that tends to crop up in harpists due to the undue amount of stress we put on our hands, fingers, and wrists, which are mostly tendons rather than muscles. I have major pain in the stretch of finger between the bottom two knuckles. It is not easy for me, as a lifelong touch typist, to get along without it, but hey, there's always spellcheck. More worrying is the fact that it makes it nearly impossible to play the harp - at a time when I have a normal recital, a senior recital, a recording session for my entry to a high-stakes scholarship competition, and a project on medieval music to prepare for - and very painful to play mallet percussion or drums. I have not yet tried to grip a pen or pencil. However, I think that will probably be painful and difficult as well. If this doesn't blow over within about 2 days, I'm going to have to start major medical research to figure out what the problem is and get it fixed. Shit, I really hope this isn't tendinitis.
I am typing minus one finger. This is due to symptoms in that one finger that I fear are indicative of tendinitis, a disorder that tends to crop up in harpists due to the undue amount of stress we put on our hands, fingers, and wrists, which are mostly tendons rather than muscles. I have major pain in the stretch of finger between the bottom two knuckles. It is not easy for me, as a lifelong touch typist, to get along without it, but hey, there's always spellcheck. More worrying is the fact that it makes it nearly impossible to play the harp - at a time when I have a normal recital, a senior recital, a recording session for my entry to a high-stakes scholarship competition, and a project on medieval music to prepare for - and very painful to play mallet percussion or drums. I have not yet tried to grip a pen or pencil. However, I think that will probably be painful and difficult as well. If this doesn't blow over within about 2 days, I'm going to have to start major medical research to figure out what the problem is and get it fixed. Shit, I really hope this isn't tendinitis.