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Thought I'd feel better if I shared this with people who would understand! I've been fighting a losing battle with tendonitis and have reached the point where I'm in a wrist splint and elbow brace. When expressing concern that I won't be able to keep up with my card orders, I've had 3 (not 1 but 3!) different people in my family ask me why I can't get my CHILDREN to color the images and cut out whatever needs to be cut! Granted, these people don't live in my house and have never seen what goes into making a card-but sheesh! Do they think this is just color in the lines like in kindergarten! So far I just smile and reply "because it would look like my children colored it in". Makes me realize how much they value what I do! I'm not angry-just thought sharing would help me feel less exasperated.
Do they think this is some sort of school "project" you are working on? Cards are works of art and some people just don't "get it". Feel free to vent away......we all feel your pain.
Hope the splints give you some relief and you can do some stamping/coloring/cutting soon.
Thought I'd feel better if I shared this with people who would understand! I've been fighting a losing battle with tendonitis and have reached the point where I'm in a wrist splint and elbow brace. When expressing concern that I won't be able to keep up with my card orders, I've had 3 (not 1 but 3!) different people in my family ask me why I can't get my CHILDREN to color the images and cut out whatever needs to be cut! Granted, these people don't live in my house and have never seen what goes into making a card-but sheesh! Do they think this is just color in the lines like in kindergarten! So far I just smile and reply "because it would look like my children colored it in". Makes me realize how much they value what I do! I'm not angry-just thought sharing would help me feel less exasperated.
I TOTALLY understand where you are coming from. I do special orders for albums, journals, etc. and I hear "why don't your children help you" all the time! AGH!!
I'm assuming you have gone to a doctor? Have they spoken about any type of surgery? I know someone who had surgery on both her hands because of tendonitis (and carpal tunnel..but that was a different incision in the wrist). Anyway, she was at a point where she couldnt' even grasp a jar to open the lid. She now has perfect hands. It was easy surgery and less than a week and she was pretty much back to normal.
Thought I'd feel better if I shared this with people who would understand! I've been fighting a losing battle with tendonitis and have reached the point where I'm in a wrist splint and elbow brace. When expressing concern that I won't be able to keep up with my card orders, I've had 3 (not 1 but 3!) different people in my family ask me why I can't get my CHILDREN to color the images and cut out whatever needs to be cut! Granted, these people don't live in my house and have never seen what goes into making a card-but sheesh! Do they think this is just color in the lines like in kindergarten! So far I just smile and reply "because it would look like my children colored it in". Makes me realize how much they value what I do! I'm not angry-just thought sharing would help me feel less exasperated.
Sounds like the mentality of my in-laws!!! I don't even send them cards anymore...the last one I didn't even get a thank you! From now on..its an American greetings for .99!!
so for the next card you need to give these people for christmas or birthday whatever, give them cards your kids do colour in. maybe then they will see the difference.
Parrothead - if you have a paper products store...what is their name...like Party Fun Store or something - (someone help me there)...Paper Card Factory??? I don't know - but they have cards 5/$1. (Real cards, but not Hallmark)
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Parrothead - if you have a paper products store...what is their name...like Party Fun Store or something - (someone help me there)...Paper Card Factory??? I don't know - but they have cards 5/$1. (Real cards, but not Hallmark)
Hopefully you've tried the doctor route, but have you tried seeing an Occupational Therapist? They can usually give you some good ideas for pain relief (using both heat and cold), the splinting schedule, and some exercises to do that may help relieve some of the pain. They are also good at helping adapt activities. (Can you tell I'm a therapist?) Anyway one of my clinicals during school was in a hand clinic and they're usually the best with coming up with some strategies.
Thanks for the encouraging words and medical help. I went to an orthopedic doctor last week and have been going to the physical therapist 3 times a week. We're hoping the splints, therapy and NSAIDS will help get the inflammation down so I can begin strengthening exercises. Right now they would do more harm than good. She (the PT) isn't too encouraged by my amount of improvement but it's only been one week. I'm hoping I don't have surgery in my future because then I won't be making cards for a long time. Oh, and I forgot to say-it isn't my hand. It's a bad case of tennis elbow which means any time you move your wrist you pull on the damaged tendon.
I wasn't going to go into such detail about me, but thought I'd clear up any confusion. Thanks for all your comments.
I got tendonitis from a poor computer workstation when I was a programmer a number of years ago. The splits and the OT did not help much, nothing did until I stopped working.
But then, whenever I'd knit a lot, it would flare up. I was at the chiropractor one day having my neck worked on (from the same computer set up!) and mentioned my wrist and hand pain and tingling...he said, "Ah, I can fix that! I used to do my grandma's wrists for her whenever she knitted too much." He pinched a spot on my hand between my thumb and forefinger, then he rotated my hand around on my wrist a bit. My hands tingled like mad for a little while and then they were fine, without any pain at all. He treated it off and on for a few months and after that, it hasn't bothered me since.
not a clue!
