Answers on a postcard, please:

[ewt]

Dear 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?

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Wasp: use a honey trap. As far as I remember this means you put some honey in a glass jar, make a paper funnel and put it in the top of the jar, put the jar in the attic and go back a few days to a week later to see if there is an enormous drowned wasp in it. Of course if it is asleep this may not entice it out, but on the other hand it might work and is worth a try.

Wrist: wait until tomorrow. Daytimes are better than evenings for A&E, and since you are neither screaming nor dying, it is probably better to go tomorrow when there are just a few injured carpenters than in the evening when there are children with fevers and sprains and people who have been knocked off bicycles in the evening and goodness knows what.