one year of arm stuff – part 5 – wait, I have wrist pain/finger weakness/tingling in my hands too! what if…?

Two facts for you:

• firstly: what exactly happened to me is so rare that in the center of healthcare and cutting edge medical science in canada, I still can’t find anyone who’s ever seen anything like it before!
• but, secondly: whatever IS causing you problems is still real and still needs to be dealt with; if I could offer one piece of advice from my journey it would be to ask for help sooner than later, and not to be satisfied or give up if things don’t improve on the first try.

I let this fucker grow in my arm for six years before I had the space in my head and my life (and the insurance coverage for the physio) to really chase it down. I don’t know how finding it sooner would have changed anything; I don’t know if we COULD have found it till it was big enough for me to palpate under my brachialis (read: feel with my fingers where it grew underneath the muscle under my bicep). I am doing a lot of Accepting that This is the State of Things and trying not to chase regrets backwards; I know that’s a trap. But for advice: feeling weird? Get it checked out if you can.