I've had the carpal tunnels done and that must have been about, it was a long time ago, about 15 or 20 years ago. And about 10 years ago, the wrist bone removed 'cos it was too early to replace it, with any artificial joint, so they just took out. So.
So has that hampered the movement of it?
It has done, yes, yeah, there're certain things that I can't do, that I used to be able to do like play the piano and things like that because of the moving, it doesn't move so fast up and down the keyboard. But never mind [laugh]. I learned to play the guitar instead [laugh] so that's left handed so that's OK.
And the carpal tunnel, what, what sort of symptoms did you get in order to realise that there was something maybe doing that?
Again that was quite a lot of pain and sort of tingling in the fingers and the ends of the fingers, although they were dead but I mean, they still are, so that's one's party piece carrying around a cup of coffee, because it doesn't burn you see [laugh]. Stick pins in the end of your, needles. So that was it basically and the fact I really, they weren't sort of bending and doing things that they should do. So they did that.
And what, you're still tingling at the ends but …?
Well they're, they're sort of dead at the end now so as I say I could stick a pin in it and I wouldn't feel it.
So what was benefit was the operation?
It took away the pain that was in sort this part of the hands and made the fingers more flexible but yeah.
And that's all the surgery you've had?
That and just having the, the wrist bone removed, yes, that's the only surgery.
Was that more pain?
That was incredibly painful, the wrist, yes and very stiff. It wouldn't do what I wanted it to do so I said, 'Right get rid of it'. So, that's been OK. |
