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[novapsyche]

My RSI is flaring up this morning. Dollars to doughnuts it's because I slept funny.

I'd planned on watching Keith Olbermann's Katrina coverage tonight at 9:00 on MSNBC, but instead I will be spending time with dionysus1999. These are the days I wish 1) MSNBC reran things more often and 2) that our VCR was hooked up correctly.

I'm wading in laundry today.

What an utterly pedestrian way to observe the fourth anniversary of the worst attack on U.S. soil.

Yet at the same time it seems, to me, macabre to focus feelings of grief on those who died in the World Trade Center attack. We've mourned them for three straight years. I think we should be observing at least one full day of mourning on a national scale for the Katrina victims. Any other Western nation, particularly those in Europe, would have done the same or more by now. Bush's strategy so far has been to keep the national consciousness from going through the five stages of grief for the tens of thousands who drowned. At least many in the 9/11 attacks died instantly. The people in New Orleans had days to wonder if the government would save them from one of the most horrible deaths imaginable.

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[mathemajician.livejournal.com]

My RSI is flaring up this morning. Dollars to doughnuts it's because I slept funny.

I read that sleeping on your hands/arms and also with your wrists bent in unnatural ways is a major factor with RSI. Basically it means that your wrists and joins don't have time to rest during the night and slowly this gets worse over time.

So I went to the local sports shop and got some wrist protectors that are used with inline skates. They aren't too uncomfortable and they mean that I can't bend my wrists. Also they only cost about US $9. Anyway, I have been sleeping with these on (not much fun but not too bad) and now my RSI is much better.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

My injury is on the left side of my neck. Generally I sleep on my left side if I'm not sleeping on my stomach. Having the injury makes it that much more uncomfortable to sleep on my right side (as my head bends down to the pillow). So the problem worsens itself.

I tend to sleep on my stomach more often than any other position, so this does mean that my wrists tend to fall asleep. In the last five years, I've noticed I wake up in the middle of the night and need to manually bend my fingers back and forth to force the blood to start moving again. But my wrists aren't where I get the pain and discomfort--it's my neck.

[mathemajician.livejournal.com]

I thought I was having circulation problems in my hands at night too, until I read that this is what many people think when they start to get RSI. Apparently it's due to the nerves and tendons and other stuff, not a lack of blood.

In my case I would wake up at about 6 am, perhaps on my back, and feel that my hands were tingling and/or numb. Especially my little fingers. Part of the problem, it seems, is that earlier on I was sleeping for a few hours with my wrists in weird positions. That irritated the nerves and stuff in my arms and lead to the problem. If I moved my hands around a bit it would get better.

I did have a bit of neck pain, but that's gone away now.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that waking up at night thinking that you don't have circulation in your arms/hands is apparently a text book response that goes through the minds of people coming down with RSI.