Mike Stafford
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Yes, I do blame it on John Elway. I had never heard of it until I started seeing those commercials that had John Elway speaking about his problems with it. For months on end, I saw these Elway commercials about how this non-surgical method would correct the problem caused by it.
Well, now I have it…in both hands. Yep I have Dupuytren’s Contracture aka Viking Disease aka Trilgger Finger medically identified as stenosing tenosynovitis. It hurts to even say that.
I guess I came by it honestly as part of my genetics are of Viking origin. My grandmother, my mother’s mother was a first-generation immigrant from Sweden. So, I am only one generation away from the heritage of pillaging although I don’t feel much like pillaging.
On my right hand it is affecting my ring finger and on the left it is bothering my middle finger and limits my ability to make a visual insult. It is always something. My doctor tried to treat the right ring finger withy cortisone injections. The first one did nothing but the second worked for about 5 weeks. Now I have so much fluid in the tendon sheath that I cannot bend it without a lot of pain. It is always something.
On top of that I have been diagnosed as having carpal tunnel in both wrists. The heel of my thumbs on both hands has been losing muscle mass and that is because of the carpal tunnel restricting blood flow.
In February I will be having surgery on my right hand to correct both the Dupuytren’s and the carpal tunnel. Supposedly that hand will only be out of commission for 10 days or so. It must really hurt as the surgeon says he sometimes has to prescribe oxycodone for the pain for some patients.
Sheesh…..it is always something.
Well, now I have it…in both hands. Yep I have Dupuytren’s Contracture aka Viking Disease aka Trilgger Finger medically identified as stenosing tenosynovitis. It hurts to even say that.
I guess I came by it honestly as part of my genetics are of Viking origin. My grandmother, my mother’s mother was a first-generation immigrant from Sweden. So, I am only one generation away from the heritage of pillaging although I don’t feel much like pillaging.
On my right hand it is affecting my ring finger and on the left it is bothering my middle finger and limits my ability to make a visual insult. It is always something. My doctor tried to treat the right ring finger withy cortisone injections. The first one did nothing but the second worked for about 5 weeks. Now I have so much fluid in the tendon sheath that I cannot bend it without a lot of pain. It is always something.
On top of that I have been diagnosed as having carpal tunnel in both wrists. The heel of my thumbs on both hands has been losing muscle mass and that is because of the carpal tunnel restricting blood flow.
In February I will be having surgery on my right hand to correct both the Dupuytren’s and the carpal tunnel. Supposedly that hand will only be out of commission for 10 days or so. It must really hurt as the surgeon says he sometimes has to prescribe oxycodone for the pain for some patients.
Sheesh…..it is always something.