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[bloobert]

vball tomorrow! Wee! I'm thinking of signing up for French classes through Halifax Rec. That or maybe guitar classes. I feel having one weeknight free of scheduled activities per week is dangerously too much unstructured time.

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[prince_andrew]

I really miss vball. I wish I could play it but those ganglions on my wrists were caused by vball.

French or guitar. Tough choice. Both are fine things to pursue. It would be cool to hear you sing a French song on the acoustic guitar.

[bloobert]

Yikes, I don't think you'd want that =)

It sucks royally about your wrists. Are they any better at all?

[prince_andrew]

Well, there are times when the cysts get inflamed and hurts like hell. When they aren't, there's no pain. I've talked to several docs, they said to live with it. So I will. What I have to do is avoid stuff that inflames them. There are some rare cases of cysts spontaneously disappearing never to return, but I'm not holding my breath. Someday there will be a simple procedure to get rid of them without any chance of recurrence. Someday.

Vball was the only team sport I really liked. Not for the competition, but for the intra-game banter. There's nothing like it.

Meh! Enough about me! What are you going to do? Chantez avec la guitar or Parlez Francais??

[bloobert]

Will decide and post the results of my deciding....

If I were you - and it wasn't dangerous to do so - I'd play anyway. But I don't know the pain you have to deal with. :-/

[kamomil]

do you wear braces on your wrists?

Actually I think John Mayer has that. Like it matters. But I did read about it recently.

[prince_andrew]

Nope. Never used braces. The pain can get so severe the only way to ease it is to not bend my wrist at all. It feels like a nail pounded through your wrist. It's all relative to how far up I flex my hand. But when there's no inflammation, there's very little to no pain.

Cysts are very common with athletes. What happens is that the joint fluid gets trapped between the layers of ligaments around a joint. The cyst is aggravated by collision with the bones (which normally would move freely) and nerves are pinched. Yuck.

The weird thing is my cyst on my right wrist is only a couple of years old (I think that was the result of playing vball out in New Maryland) and is very sensitive. But my cyst on my left wrist, that I had since I was 18, can get sore but recovers much faster.

I guess these things get less sensitive with age. Or the nerves get used to it. :)

If I had big, Popeye forearms like Mike, perhaps this never would have occurred. But I'll live with my toothpicks that pass for arms. They work OK otherwise! :)

[kamomil]

I read that John was wearing a wrist brace. Then tonight on some website there was info that it's for immobilizing the joint. Though I'm not sure that a brace wouldn't squish the cyst itself

[prince_andrew]

I also have tendonitis in my wrists which can get aggravated by maintaining a grip on something for too long. But if I'm careful, the pain goes rather quickly and doesn't linger too long. I hope they find a cure for that as well