My unfounded fears

I have been having a scare lately and last week I went to the doctor and eased my mind. I type medical transcriptions every day for my job. I have been having problems with carpal tunnel, I had release surgery on this 15 years ago, but it has come back again in the last few years with all of my typing. The biggest concern was that I started having a pain in a joint of my hand. This frightened me deeply because my mother was crippled with rheumatoid arthritis and her hands were disfigured and painful to her. The doctor did x-rays and also rheumatoid arthritis testing and also sent me to an orthopedic surgeon for consultation. The RA test was negative, the x-rays showed only very slight arthritic changes and the orthopedic surgeon said the joint pain was tendonitis. I was very relieved. We are now just going to focus on whether the carpal tunnel is bad enough to need surgery again. I will keep you posted.


I wanted to add to this post my favorite picture of me with my mom and my favorite picture of my parents, this was taken around their 50th wedding anniversary. She was such a wonderful woman and I will spend my life trying to be the type of mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend that she was.