The hazards of life
May. 16th, 2007 09:10 pmAbout two months ago, I changed desks, got things organised how I like them and vaguely set things in motion for a workstation assessment. A few weeks ago, in the midst of typing up some dictation, my left hand got pins & needles. The workstation assessment was abruptly brought forward to a couple of days later. My mouse got switched from my left to right hand and my keyboard raised to the proper height. I'd switch my mouse at home except it doesn't seem to work on the right side of my keyboard.
Today, not having been doing much dictation (or much of anything at all really), I came back from class, typed my left hand got pins and needles again and even worse, the tendon or whatever it is that stretches down the back of my hand from the knuckle below my forefinger started tightening up at random intervals. The pins & needles are exceedingly annoying. The tightening bit actually hurts. I talked to our floor health & safety rep, who has no idea what could be causing it. I rather think I'm going to make a doctor's appointment sometime soon.
See, I googled "OSH" and "tingling" and most of the results that came up involved carpal tunnel syndrome, which would just be bad.
It seems very strange for it to be my left hand when it's my right that is dominant.
Dreamweaver's Dilemma has been reprinted! This is a collection of Lois McMaster Bujold's early short stories and it's something I've been after for a while, since it was out of print and I'd only ever seen the library copy. But I have it now and it's all mine and the only books of hers I don't have are The Spirit Ring (which I'm not in a hurry for) and Sharing Knife: Legacy (which hasn't been released yet).
Today, not having been doing much dictation (or much of anything at all really), I came back from class, typed my left hand got pins and needles again and even worse, the tendon or whatever it is that stretches down the back of my hand from the knuckle below my forefinger started tightening up at random intervals. The pins & needles are exceedingly annoying. The tightening bit actually hurts. I talked to our floor health & safety rep, who has no idea what could be causing it. I rather think I'm going to make a doctor's appointment sometime soon.
See, I googled "OSH" and "tingling" and most of the results that came up involved carpal tunnel syndrome, which would just be bad.
It seems very strange for it to be my left hand when it's my right that is dominant.
Dreamweaver's Dilemma has been reprinted! This is a collection of Lois McMaster Bujold's early short stories and it's something I've been after for a while, since it was out of print and I'd only ever seen the library copy. But I have it now and it's all mine and the only books of hers I don't have are The Spirit Ring (which I'm not in a hurry for) and Sharing Knife: Legacy (which hasn't been released yet).