My pinkie finger from the first to second knuckle has been hurting almost 2 months now. It isn't super painful but it is bother some. It hurts all day long whenever I do everyday things. Pulling laundry out of washer, steering the car, pulling the covers up, holding a bowl of ice cream. It is most painful when I forget it hurts and just do normal things. Not to mention when Zander is trying to get away from a diaper change and kicks it. I'm talking about a very sharp drop everything kind of pain just in the area of the first to second knuckle.
So finally I break down and call on Monday to get seen. The guy says to me how about tomorrow at 7:40. That works because I don't want to wait another month, I was surprised I got in that fast. DH stays home with Zander, I was hoping to get a X-ray and we can't have babies in the X-ray room. I get up a hour and half early, drive a half hour in the morning traffic going on base. Just for the lady to tell me my appointment isn't until Wednesday at 7:40. Seems to me someone needs to learn what the word tomorrow means. No biggie just a waste of gas. I can nap with Zander.

So this morning I take Zander with me. I check in and the lady asked if I came in yesterday. I say yes, she talks to the lady standing beside her. Saying she is another one that came in yesterday.( I was right the guy needs to learn the meaning of tomorrow. Or maybe look at the calendar and just say the date instead.) Anyways we sit down I know longer get Zander's hat off and they are calling me back. I tell the guy what hurts and when it hurts and give him the examples from above. He leaves and the Dr comes in.
Here is where I start getting worried. She starts talking to Zander, he is sitting on the table and I am standing. Then she asks me what he is eating. I'm thinking she thinks he is the patient. I say he eats what ever we give him. She asks if he eats a lot of carrots? Squash sweet potatoes? Yes but that isn't all that he eats. She then proceeds to tell me she can tell because of the color/tone of his skin. HUH? Have you looked in the baby food isle? Half of what she named is half of what he eats. I give him green veggies just as much as I give orange veggies. Besides that he has always been this tone. I guess I can start calling it carrot.
Back to my pinkie.... She asks how old he is and if I had any problems with carpaltonel while pregnant. If I breastfeed. I did not have any problems and yes I do bf. Do I use the computer a lot? Yes
All I really want is a X-ray thinking I have a hairline fracture.
She starts talking carpaltunnel and has me move my wrist this way and that way. Which doesn't hurt. I tell her when my PINKY hurts, never once did I say it hurts when I use the laptop. It hurts when there is any type of pressure on my finger. At most give me something to stop using my finger. Did she not read what the guy wrote down? Is she so in grossed in my baby that she isn't listening to me now? My pinkie hurts. Not my wrist.
So here I am with this stupid wrist splint. The wrist splint that I can tell right away is NOT going to work. I have to wear it for a month. Right where the splint ends lands right on the side of my knuckle causing me more pain then if I just went with out. So now I can't move my wrist but I can still move my pinkie which is now in more pain then before.
I'm going to call again Friday and get in again next week. I want a X-ray.
By the way it now hurts when I use the laptop.

Well that was my long winded rant. okay I feel a little better

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