torn ligament?

The Saga of my wrist pain continues.
Yesterday afternoon I had my third appointment with my hand doctor. The cortisone shots haven't worked. And I had a very interesting and stressful consultation with my Doctor.

There happened to be a Doctor from Sweden who was there visiting the center, working with the doctors to demonstrate a new piece of equipment that tests muscle strength. Dr. Brown gave him a little of the background information on my case, mentioning that I had been worried that one of wrist bones seems "prominent"? was that the word he used. My Doctor hadn't seen anything wrong around that bone, telling me that the bump on the wrist is normal and that it was nothing to worry about (he wouldn't listen to me when I said that it WASN"T normal for me, and that my wrist seems to be twisted to the side). The swedish doctor immediately and gingerly picked up my wrist, felt around, and said "that bone isn't pushing up. THIS other bone is pushing down!" I knew that was always the case, but Dr. Brown had never paid attention. The appointment continued, with me being tested by the swedish doctor with the new machine, and nothing came up abnormal. So basically, at the end, Dr. Brown told me AGAIN that he just couldn't tell what was wrong me, and if he couldn't find anything wrong then he couldn't fix me! (but he will keep trying) It was at this point that Swedish doctor said to mine, politely, obviously not wanting to intrude on his diagnosis. "Her case reminds me of one I have seen before". The swedish doctor knew what was going on, and I'm going to get an official second opinion from someone else, because this is what the Swedish doctor said - he has seen cases where a very small ligament inside the wrist has come loose, making the wrist look very much like how mine looks. It apparently is very difficult to diagnose, and even harder to fix. The only way to know for sure if this is what's happened to me is to open up my wrist and look inside.

I need surgery. I'm screwed.

So many ear wires!

My gods. I have sold and made SO many pairs of ear wires through my etsy store. SO much! My ear wires take a lot of time and work (with the measuring, cutting, shaping, re-measuring, hammering and filing), and I know I'm underselling myself. I'd love it if my other findings received as much attention and orders.
I just calculated how many ear wires I've made to order since I opened my store a few months ago. 116 pairs, total. Out of those, 60 pairs have been my "Curly-Q" style. Those are definately my best seller. I'm relisting them every couple of days.
I'm getting a little -ear-wired-out. Making them to often. Now that I'm back to work, and back to teaching classes, on top of my etsy store, I have had NO time to create jewelry. What to do? Perhaps in a few weeks I'll let some of my ear wire designs sell out for a little while. Take a little break. In the meantime, I've got some ear-wire orders to make....

Back to work and busy busy

On a side note....I'm having some serious problems with etsy.com!!!! I haven't been able to log on and access my store. Which is very very frustrating as I have orders in progress, and need to contact some customers!!! Even my link from this blog to my etsy store is all screwed up. I had to remove the link in order for my blog to even load! Arg!

So. I've been busy. Back to work at Manifest Beads after 4 months and wow is the store busy!!!! Tons of new customers, lots of sales, including jewelry sales and custom orders. Classes will start up soon and then I'll be even busier. And my etsy store has been keeping me busy as well. It's a lot....but it's nice to be seriously making money again. Hopefully it won't take too long to replenish the savings I used to have (after paying off some debt).

Oh, and I thought my wrist was fixed, but it's not. After working for several hours last night, the familiar ache and pain was back. Which means that the doctor will want me to come back so that we can try again. Ugh.