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Avoiding grapefruit

Not for the usual medical reason where you are advised against grapefruit juice for its potentiating tendencies when combined with certain drugs. My doctor has ordered me away from my pink grapefruit Citron in progress:

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In fact, any knitting does not mix with the current state of my thumb. How is it one little appendage can cause so much misery? And the ugly names to go with it – Trigger Thumb, French Washer Woman's Syndrome, de Quervain's Tenosynovitis. Not whining, but needing a portable activity for C's big birthday trip coming up. No thumb action allowed. Suggestions appreciated, good books, adaptive knitting…..?

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  1. Emma Avatar
    Emma

    DH had a bad case of trigger thumb, a consequence of constant transferring of disabled son. I have thumb problems too. Anyway, he had a corticosteroid injection. Hurt like hell but cured the problem.
    He rang me from outside the hospital and said “Owwwwwww!” ! Mind you, he’s a bloke and therefore a wimp with needles !
    Hope things improve speedily. When my thumb joints are bad ~I can’t spin or knit, which I find rather depressing.
    Life, eh ?

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  2. Rosie Avatar
    Rosie

    I am in a women’s book club and have read many. In addition, I have four books going at the same time. I am like my Mom in that respect. For a suspense novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is terrific. (Everyone in my book club liked The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I am in process of reading The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. I just finished Water the Elephants a novel about early circus life. The Book Alice about Alice Roosevelt Longworth is wonderful if you like history.
    Li make sure you buy that supplement Horsetail because it is a dietary supplement for the connective tissue.
    Rosie

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  3. Veronica Avatar
    Veronica

    My sympathies. I had that condition too, a gift from carrying my babies. I wore a wrist-brace, it was a little awkward for knitting but I was able to knit. Perhaps something different like French/loom knitting?

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  4. Dorothy Avatar
    Dorothy

    I’ll put my toothache up against your thumb and raise you one! But wait – I can knit with a toothache, even on Vicodin, so you win. Books are good, but you can’t really be social with others while you’re reading. Which thumb? If it’s your left and you’re right handed, you could crochet, but you probably aren’t so lucky, are you?

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  5. LoriAngela Avatar
    LoriAngela

    Reading! My reading queue is suffering because of my knitting frenzy.

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  6. Jane Toumpas Avatar
    Jane Toumpas

    Where’s Chuck’s BIg trip too?

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  7. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    It’s not delicate work, but buy a knitting loom and make some charity hats?

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  8. Suzanne Avatar
    Suzanne

    Hope you feel better soon. Citron looks lovely so far.
    A book I recommended to a friend recently going through knee surger was The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. She also wrote The House At Riverton but I liked The Forgotten Garden better.
    For quick reads, I like Jennifer Chiarverini’s quilt series. They take place at Quilt Camp. I don’t quilt but I like them.

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  9. Cheryl Avatar
    Cheryl

    drop spindling … maybe, or the full out wrist brace, the kind with a flat piece of metal to keep everything in line?? Good luck. I feel for you since developing ulnar nerve damage. I have to be really careful how much knitting, computering, driving and so on, that I do. It really is a pain in the…. hand. 🙂

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  10. Rebekah Avatar
    Rebekah

    Wierd, I have never seen/noticed this pattern before and now twice in one day I see it on two blogs. I’m thinking it might be a good choice for some laceweight silk/cashmere that is hand-painted that I have a I want a very non-patterned project to show off its beautiful colors. I’m thinking this might fit the bill.

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  11. Daisy Avatar
    Daisy

    Both thumbs? Harsh! I’ll have to think some more…

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  12. Sandy Avatar
    Sandy

    HI!
    Sorry to hear about your thumb. Had the same thing a couple of years ago, and the hand specialist I went to said it had nothing to do with knitting, but ‘other’ issues- namely stress. (We were building a house at the time, looking for a new job, etc.) In fact, he encouraged me to knit to help relieve some of the stress. It went away once some of the stress in my life was eliminated. I hope you can figure out what’s ‘getting’ to you! It’s certainly a nuisance to deal with!!

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  13. lynne Avatar
    lynne

    Sorry about that Li…it’s like a bad toe. I can never understand how one bad toe can become such a big issue.
    Get better….grapefruit looks wonderful!

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