...I went for a nerve conduction test. Which basically means getting wired up to a machine and being shocked. Repeatedly.
Why? Because I have no feeling in part of my hand and 2 fingers. It has been like that for months, but I have had a hard time convincing doctors to take this seriously.
I have a feeling that time is now over.
The torture* revealed "near absence of left ulnar sensory action potentials" - which translated means (I think) pretty much what I have been saying for months. I can't feel a damn thing in 2 fingers. Now I have to go for MRI to find out why I have "ulnar nerve palsy". Good news is there's nothing wrong with my motor strength. I just drop things cos I can't feel them - and forget about typing with my little finger...
*Ok, so it was pretty mild, if kinda creepy.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
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4 comments:
Hope you get well soon...
None of these things are "funny" however mild they appear to be. Since my cold, which hasn't disappeared yet, I have been deaf in one ear, not serious but... So you were very wise to press for treatment and diagnosis of your hand.
I forgot to say, by the way, that I have just received the first two books of the Mirage Makers - not sure when and if I will get the third. I hope so. I am looking forward to them.
So you can still control the two fingers, just can't feel anything? Did you suddenly become aware of it a few months back, or was it more gradual?
Sometimes the approach taken by doctors seems a little too impersonal. One could hope that they could test the same thing in a less traumatic way.
Anyway, I hope it's something that can be remedied!
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