So - I decided to start blogging (you lucky people are in for a treat - or maybe not - lol). My OT ordered me a hand splint to keep me from making a fist during the night - except for that icky, sweaty feeling you get when you're in contact with plastic for any length of time - it was surprisingly comfortable. At least I wasn't awake half the night trying to keep my hand unclenched. She also started using the e-stim in hopes of jump starting some hand movement since the only thing I can do right now is make a fist and get my pinky to move - we like to joke about how my hand is coming back bass ackwards cuz I can't do anything the easy way. I get to do an on road driving assessment on October 9th so hopefully I'll get the all clear to start driving again - not being able to drive myself has been driving me nuts because I'm a very independent person. I also get to go see a neuropsychologist next week and as long as he doesn't find anything wrong that my ST has missed I think They'll let me go back to work soon.

And work is a whole other story - the last time I stopped by to visit they were telling me how my job has changed since I left - if I was going back to my old job the way it used to be it would be a piece of cake. Hopefully somebody else will continue doing that part of my job and they'll give me general work to do. And then, since my job is technically going away by the end of the year, I was offered another job that will be a lot less stressful.

We have to have blood work done every year at work and fill out a health assessment if we want the lower insurance rate and mine was yesterday. If a doctor was looking strictly at my numbers - which were almost perfect - he never would have thought I'd be at risk for a stroke - but like I said before I seem to do things bass ackwards and make life as difficult as possible for myself.

Thus endeth my first blog.