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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
It's so nice that you remember these things!
And here is something unrelated for me to whine about. Thanks to various manual labor jobs over the years involving digging and smacking a shovel into hard ground, my right hand is totally fucked up. Frequently I wake up with my right hand totally clenched in a claw-like position and today I woke up with no feeling in my right index finger. Now the feeling is back but it's fading now and then. I'm beginning to think I have serious nerve damage in that hand. Fuck.
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I lose feeling to certain of my fingers all the time. I have all my life. They just turn completely white (whiter?) and are dead until they get warm enough/circulation returns. This was a much more severe problem when I lived in northern climes. I actually went to a rheumatologist (or however you spell that) at some point for some unrelated problem and found out that there is a name for my losing circulation thing AND that it is one of the indicators for that horrible skin-hardening disease (skleraderma?) that Jason Alexander's sister has. Luckily only one of several indicators, and I don't have the others really. So anyway, live and learn. I'm not sure how this relates to you or to planting trees or to boxing, but maybe it isn't all about you, gwnc. Have you ever considered that? Me neither.
AND tying threads together... One of the things that would almost certainly lead to the loss of circulation in my fingers was cleaning lettuce for salads when I worked at Friendly's (hi rp! hi dtb!). See, I usually lost circulation from having cold hands and having my hands immersed in very cold water for several minutes at a time would frequently trigger the problem. As would not wearing gloves during the winter. So I am in sunny LA (not particularly sunny today) for medical reasons. I'm like the old ladies who move to Phoenix.
