The Results are In
This is an x-ray of a normal right wrist. The hand sits balanced on the wrist. All the cushion in between the bones is in place and there is a rhyme and reason to the placement of the bones.
This is my right wrist. I went for a second opinion today. The doctor was excellent in his explanation. The wrist is much like the cone of an ice cream cone. The joints and finger of the hand are like the ice cream that sits on the cone. My ice cream has slid off . . . way off. Nothing more can be done other than perhaps taking an Alieve Gel Cap when the wrist pain is at its worse. If the pain were the first thing that would awake me in the morning and continue so during the day, day after day, a cortisone shot could be given. In all honesty the pain is not severe. It is humbling to need to use two hands to hold my beloved coffee and several other special ways to do things. The specialist thought it was great that I have been training myself to work on the ambidexterity. His advice was to continue doing all that I have been doing and being smart in finding new ways of doing everything that I enjoy. His parting words were to the effect that when I am ready to be a compliant old lady I should come and see him and he would fuse the wrist. Hell . . . I hope his is retired by that time.