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Originally Posted by Zeus
Glad to hear he is ok, though I have to say the diagnosis seems a little funny. Slept with his wrist cocked at a wrong angle?
If he spends as much time typing on his computer at Mach2 like you stated, I'm surprised they didn't consider improper typing technique and/or arm placement at the PC as a more likely culprit - and a potentially reoccuring one if he is not typing correctly. If you type with your wrist at a bad angle, it's easy to get some nerve fatigue and/or damage. Tingling/numbness in the wrist/forearm is usually the first symptom.
Ditto the back pain is he isn't sitting properly or hunches over a lot while typing.
Just a thought...
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Yeah, that was a paraphrase of what BIL told me. And, no doubt typing has plenty to do with it...
The back pain is due to stenosis of the spine and some injuries in the oilfield 30+ years ago.
I know now that the rest of the story is he's on a new nerve med for that back pain. When he first started on it last week, all he wanted to do was sleep. The dosage was supposed to double after a week. He took the new dosage of the med Tuesday night and decided to work a while longer, dozed off at his desk at some unknown time and my sis found him about 6 am. He was slumped over and she thought he'd died. Musta trashed the hand then.
I've heard of drunks passing out and doing that; it's called
saturday night palsy.
He's no drunk but the end result is the same.