Yes, still a big issue two weeks before I go for the ulna-shortening osteotomy for my right wrist . My left wrist, which had the surgery last fall, had been doing pretty good until buying the house, moving, lifting, trying to make jewelry and occasionally play my guitar. My right wrist has been quite aggravated too from painting walls (I am right-handed), moving, lifting, gardening, making jewelry and occasionally playing my guitar.
I have been trying to take it easy the past few weeks since our last open mic at the local bar in which my left (fretting) hand started really aching and being wonky, so much so that I went down to my ortho doctor in Albuquerque two weeks ago and she took an x-ray, which came out fine. The bone surgery has healed well, but I have been telling her as far back as this past spring that something didn't feel right, that it felt like I tore cartilage or something in the soft tissue area in the wrist between the bones of the hand and wrist (in the last surgery she had repaired/debrieded the torn cartilage and "cleaned up" the messy stuff in there). She kept saying all along that she thinks it's all right, that I just "strained" it. I am not so sure about that. Last night I was pulling wet clothes out of the washer and something happened to cause a very sharp pain in the left wrist, and now I haven't been able to put any weight on that hand or press down very well. This all two weeks before my right wrist is scheduled to be completely out of commission for at least two months!
So here is my game plan - if it still hurts this much on Monday, I will call and INSIST she schedules me for an MRI on the left wrist this week so I can be sure that if something drastic is going on with it, I can postpone the right wrist surgery. I already have the time I need off from work starting on Oct. 15th though. What a mess! And in the mix is the fact that I have long ago earlier this year hit my out-of-pocket expenses with my insurance for the year so it totally behooves me to get as much done as possible if it is warranted.
It ALWAYS something! I am becoming concerned with my ability to be able to do the things I love (make art and play music) going forward. I am almost 58 and it feels like some of this stuff really won't be getting that much better and I am going to have to start making choices, maybe limiting what I can do with my hands and that really sucks...I'm still relatively young and I need my hands!!!!!!!