finally i stopped complaining, worrying, and turning around in circles and i went to see my personal physician's vacation replacement. the fellow is not a total stranger, he is a neighbor,
on thursday i decided that after running and feeling more pain, that it was time to stop the procrastination. on friday morning i gave the practice a call, and got an appointment for the afternoon. after i told the good man all there was to tell about the history of this discomfort and he had me a few diagnostic tests, he came up with the conclusion this looked not like arthritis or an inflammation, rather it could be overuse, or some wrong movement... the blood test confirmed that there is no inflammation. ok, there is something on my left hand that got x-rayed, but i do not know what that looks like yet.
much relieved i went to practice in the evening, and discovered at least one movement which i may have been doing wrong and that may be at the root of all of this. the minute my body showed me this, then i had to think of one of my sensei who has several times pointed this out to me, and somehow i have never really got it. well, i got what he said, it made then no sense to me, it makes perfect sense to me now. so that was it! i think it is time that i stop staring at him when he tells me such stuff.
