Wrist pain sucks

Since about mid-November, I've been having pain in my wrists. It came on gradually and has gotten steadily worse. It was getting really hard to do things like pick up Caden and Rohan, and sometimes hard to do simple things like pull my keys out of my pocket. Just before Christmas I finally went to the doctor, who said it was tendinitis. Joy.

Today I had an appointment with an occupational therapist. It was somewhat cool; the therapist did all sorts of tests to isolate exactly what the problem areas were. I learned quite a bit about the anatomy of the wrists. Anyway, she decided I should get a splint on my right wrist. She wanted to splint both wrists, but thought that might make daily life a little difficult. I'm glad she just went with one.

Here's the splint. It immobilizes my thumb and extends up my forearm.

From splint

In addition to helping me heal, it's good for spreading positive vibes, and for hitchhiking:

From splint

Hopefully I recover quickly. This is going to majorly interfere with my already scarce video game time.