Answers on a postcard, please:
Nov. 7th, 2007 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewtDear LazyWebs,
1) There is still (or again?) a honking big wasp in the loft, after not seeing it for a few days. How do I get rid of it without taking the entire contents of the loft OUT of the loft? Also, when I go to do this, how do I guarantee the wasp will turn up?
2) I seem to have done something nasty to my right wrist.
My extensor carpi ulnaris hurts, particularly near the wrist, and when I rotate my forearm counterclockwise (so the palm is facing me and the pinky is toward my left, though I can normally rotate further than that). I also have reduced grip strength and some pain on gripping things, and the clicking of my wrist is louder than normal for me. This is distinctly unpleasant but not actually bad enough to bother taking painkillers and there doesn't seem to be any significant inflammation; for now I've put my wrist in a splint. I'm not sure how I did this. Elbow quite swollen but not badly painful today and yesterday so I'm wondering if it's related to that; a few days ago I had some bad pain/inflammation stuff but I mostly know what caused that and this doesn't seem to be particularly related (in that there is little if any inflammation in the hand/wrist, the pain is completely different, and I haven't done the activity that triggered the problems last time). My neck and shoulder are not wonderful but this doesn't feel connected. I've not had this sort of wrist pain before. I'm wondering if it's some sort of wrist subluxation. Wrists are a bit of a bugger because there are so many little bones...
Am I to go straight to the ER, or do I wait until tomorrow and see how things go and maybe visit the walk-in centre (where they do not, AFAIK, have x-ray machines or bone/joint ppl), or try to get to the osteopath next week and see what she says?
1) There is still (or again?) a honking big wasp in the loft, after not seeing it for a few days. How do I get rid of it without taking the entire contents of the loft OUT of the loft? Also, when I go to do this, how do I guarantee the wasp will turn up?
2) I seem to have done something nasty to my right wrist.
My extensor carpi ulnaris hurts, particularly near the wrist, and when I rotate my forearm counterclockwise (so the palm is facing me and the pinky is toward my left, though I can normally rotate further than that). I also have reduced grip strength and some pain on gripping things, and the clicking of my wrist is louder than normal for me. This is distinctly unpleasant but not actually bad enough to bother taking painkillers and there doesn't seem to be any significant inflammation; for now I've put my wrist in a splint. I'm not sure how I did this. Elbow quite swollen but not badly painful today and yesterday so I'm wondering if it's related to that; a few days ago I had some bad pain/inflammation stuff but I mostly know what caused that and this doesn't seem to be particularly related (in that there is little if any inflammation in the hand/wrist, the pain is completely different, and I haven't done the activity that triggered the problems last time). My neck and shoulder are not wonderful but this doesn't feel connected. I've not had this sort of wrist pain before. I'm wondering if it's some sort of wrist subluxation. Wrists are a bit of a bugger because there are so many little bones...
Am I to go straight to the ER, or do I wait until tomorrow and see how things go and maybe visit the walk-in centre (where they do not, AFAIK, have x-ray machines or bone/joint ppl), or try to get to the osteopath next week and see what she says?
