My Current Physical & Mental State
This is not a blog I wanted to write. This will be easier than explaining the same thing each time anyone wants to know where I've been the last year or two. Unfortunately, I have been dealing with chronic pain issues since June 2023. It started with pain in my right palm that came out of nowhere. I went to the doctor who said he didn't see anything on x-ray - probably just some kind of inflammation, so he gave me a cortisone shot and told me to take it easy. Not long after that I started getting occasional light pain in my left thumb. After some months, I went to a sports doctor who took fresh x-rays and said I have basal (CMC joint) arthritis in my right thumb. This was devastating. She didn't know what was going on in my left thumb (x-ray showed nothing). I'll try to skip some of the boring details, but the pain and dysfunction in both my hands has only increased the last 20 months. I now get similar pain on both hands that moves around between the center of each pa...