Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

I did not realize how dangerous collecting was until today . I am out collecting the rent . I am almost done , reach in to grab one and POP goes my wrist . that hurts . I have carpet tunnels in that wrist , but it has been good the last while . Hurt like a son of a gun , wrist and down into baby finger . Guess I have to start wearing the brace again . Well that just cut my sex life in half for while .
What a stupid thing to happen collecting eggs . Warning Collecting eggs is hazardous to your health . Stay safe guys, leave the egg collecting to trained professorial's .

Hmmm, I think I know why you had carpal tunnel in the first place!

FUTZ wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 2:49 pm Hmmm, I think I know why you had carpal tunnel in the first place!

Ya it couldn't be 30 years wrenching .
It wouldn't be so frustrating if I had have done it working it too hard . But collecting eggs .

Oh no, sorry to hear that Dave! My wife has that in both wrists, she tells me it's really painful. Take it easy, will you!

Sorry to hear you tweaked your wrist - it's never fun regardless of how it happens. Hope you are feeling better soon - has had issues with her wrist since last fall - pulling a two wheel dolly that twisted on rough terrain at the property...

Geez Dave how big are these eggs your collecting? Are you sure your not raising ostriches or something?


Seriously though I hope it heals quick for you. That seems to be the way it happens, when doing light work. I’ve had that happen to my back before, just move wrong and then the pain!

Eugen wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 3:59 pm Oh no, sorry to hear that Dave! My wife has that in both wrists, she tells me it's really painful. Take it easy, will you!

Ya I have it mild in 1 wrist and moderate in the other . What ever that means . Not bad enough to require surgery but I am suppose to ware braces at night . But the are very uncomfortable and the doesn't like it when I roll over and wack her with them in the middle of the night . Hard plastic hurts . I was taking it easy , that is the most frustrating part . You know our hens lay some decent size eggs but ugg, it was just an egg .

A friend of mine had the carpal tunnel surgery recently. He had both done the same day and only had a band aid on each wrist. He said he was in no pain the day after the surgery when I saw him. Harry

Harry wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 7:56 am A friend of mine had the carpal tunnel surgery recently. He had both done the same day and only had a band aid on each wrist. He said he was in no pain the day after the surgery when I saw him. Harry

As I get older and if it becomes too bad I will then opt. out for surgery . I have too heard great things , but was told mine is not bad enough yet , so got to ware the brace more for now .

Dave, I wish you a speedy recovery from this pain.

Interesting fact how sometimes just a tiny thing throws you in pain. A guy I work with has been in a lot of lower back pain from a cough. He's not old, in his late fifties, and was just recovering from a bad cold. One of my theories is that from time to time we have some sort of general inflammation in our bodies, and that's when small movements can lead to a lot of pain. I am not a medical doctor, but this is my theory.

Eugen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:33 am Dave, I wish you a speedy recovery from this pain.

Interesting fact how sometimes just a tiny thing throws you in pain. A guy I work with has been in a lot of lower back pain from a cough. He's not old, in his late fifties, and was just recovering from a bad cold. One of my theories is that from time to time we have some sort of general inflammation in our bodies, and that's when small movements can lead to a lot of pain. I am not a medical doctor, but this is my theory.

A coughing fit can be strong enough to crack a rib . I knew a guy who did just that after inhaling some of he what he was drinking . Coughed so hard that cracked a rib .

RoamingGnome wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 4:48 pm Sorry to hear you tweaked your wrist - it's never fun regardless of how it happens. Hope you are feeling better soon - has had issues with her wrist since last fall - pulling a two wheel dolly that twisted on rough terrain at the property...

Does she use a brace at night ?

For the carpal tunnel, I have just done stretching exercises. Place your palms together like praying and move your elbows out to the side, then force your hands down to bend the wrists back as far as you can. I suppose if you want to multitask push ups would work to Then repeat this but put the back of your hands together and push tight to bend the wrists down. Years of factory welding and lots of angle grinder use, and later heavy equipment operating hanging on to a steering wheel for 10-12 hours a day will catch up to you

The back. It is always the lite stuff that gets me. I can throw feed sacks and welding gas cylinders over a shoulder no problem. But bent over a welding table and straightening up put me on my knees my back hurt so bad. Another time standing up straight with a empty windex bottle in one hand and a gallon jug of washer fluid in the other, as I started to pour fluid to fill the smaller bottle something in my back pinched and was again on my knees.

I also get the pinched nerve / electrification feeling in thumbs and fingers from time to time, grab something and it feels like I just grabbed one of those 100+ mile electric fencers


Gordy

DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:33 am Does she use a brace at night ?

Yes she does - although she tends to remember it more when her wrist is really bugging her - her diagnosis was for "De Quervain's tenosynovitis" it's an inflammation of the tendons on the thumb side of the wrist - like when you are trying to grab or pinch something between your thumb and the rest of your fingers. I tease her about having one and a half opposable thumbs

I think it is a combination of stress from years of doing pen and ink art (stippling or pointillism) and the hand cart incident - I let her pull the dolly with a couple of 2' patio stones standing upright on it - wheel hit a hole in the ground and spun her wrist almost 180 degrees - she should have let it go and jumped out of the way...

She's seen the doctor, and had a couple of physio appointments and got some exercises to do - it's just a slow healing process...

I had mechanic friends that had surgery for tendinitis in their wrists - it helped with the symptoms but they were a lot more careful about swinging sledgehammers and using 1" impact guns when they finally returned to work after long lengthy recoveries...

Gordy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:45 am

The back. It is always the lite stuff that gets me. I can throw feed sacks and welding gas cylinders over a shoulder no problem. But bent over a welding table and straightening up put me on my knees my back hurt so bad. Another time standing up straight with a empty windex bottle in one hand and a gallon jug of washer fluid in the other, as I started to pour fluid to fill the smaller bottle something in my back pinched and was again on my knees.




Gordy

My back is the same way Gordy. It sure is aggravating when all you do is stand up and it feels like somebody has stuck an ice pick in your back.

When I use to lift the babies out of the crib, it would always give me a pain in my back. Harry