Ma sometimes has a sore shoulder. She puts this down to our tugging on trots when we want to worry wildlife.
Last night she told Dad that she was going to Deep Heat it. Man that rub stinks and she used a metric ton of it.
Here’s what happened though.
No sooner were we snuggled up in bed with a hot but pain free shoulder than she took an almighty intense pain in her right thumb.
No matter what way she turned the thumb throbbed and the pain radiated up the inside of her wrist and arm.
We wracked our brains as to what could have caused it. If it had been a sprain from one of our “forced extensions” wouldn’t she have felt it at the point of the pull?
Could it be gout? She has been hitting the sunflowers seeds as a snack pretty heavily these past days.
Could it be carpel tunnel syndrome from too much typing for me? The right thumb definitely does most of the work.
Maybe it is repetitive stress injury from holding heavy teapots and pouring too much tea.
Or is it possible that the pain in the shoulder is escaping via the thumb.
Remember that old rhyme about bones being connected. If one joint relaxes is it possible a trapped nerve emerges and bingo you have activated a new issue.
It’s a bit better this morning but if you have ever experienced something similar please share so I can reassure her she hasn’t gone nuts.,
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