Crochet Injury!

Yes, you read that correctly:  crochet injury.

Not croquet injury.

Or crochet inquiry.

I have injured myself with yarn.

It started, I'm ashamed to say, in the fall when I was making all of those prayer shawls.  At first, it was just some intermittent soreness in my right elbow.  But more recently it was weakness and more constant aching in my entire right forearm.  I knew it was a problem when it was bothersome to hold the phone and worrisome to unload the dishwasher without dropping something.

I asked my favorite PT what she thought--ironically, last night when she discharged me from PT for my back--and she concluded "compressed radial nerve."

The PA at the ortho's office confirmed it.  What started as tennis elbow advanced to a compressed radial nerve and tendonitis.  I have a new PT scrip, a brace to immobilize the wrist and forearm, and a warning not to use it.

You know, for typing on my blog and things.  Like crocheting.

So, I'll probably be quiet here (and on email and FB) for awhile, or at least brief.  She said it might take a few months for it to feel better, even with my magic PT.