Friday 10/13/2023
Took the standard walk, ending at CVS on University at 10am, early for my appointment. But after a short wait I got my Covid shot in the left arm, and an RSV shot in the right.
At 12 I took off for Shoreline near the CHM, to meet Scott and Denny for lunch and nostalgia talk. Their past lives are SO much more interesting than mine. Although they agreed that by not having to be in the military, I was fortunate. Fortunate, maybe, but with a lot fewer amusing recollections.
A couple of times today I played on the guitar. This is going well in one sense, in that stuff I used to know is coming back, and my left hand calluses are reforming making it a lot less painful to fret the strings. I’ve also been exercising my left hand with an exerciser thingy to increase grip strength, and as a result I can almost do barre chords again. Playing “Puff the Magic Dragon” and I can do the G-B♭-C-D sequence as barre chords. Almost. Sometimes.
But there’s another problem. I’ve got some kind of nerve entrapment going on in the area of my left elbow. After about 10 minutes of playing, my left thumb and forefinger and middle finger lose feeling, “go to sleep”. I have to straighten my arm out to get feeling back. The same thing happens when I use my computer propped on my stomach, with my arms bent up to the keyboard. I’m not sure what I want to do about this. Seek medical advice I suppose. Sigh.
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