March 7th 2022: Progress Report

Hello everyone, Rem here with this week's Progress Report. I'll be using voice to text for this week's report too.
First of all Sachinama has been hard at work creating the cut in variations and I hope that I will be able to implement them into the game by the end of this week
The rest of this post will be talking about my health so if you're uninterested in hearing about that I advise you to stop and for those who have been waiting for news about translations, work has been progressing because they do not need my involvement in them currently so please rest assured.
First up the X-ray report my right hand. The results turned out to be negative so the bones in my right hand are fine, there's been no injury there. But I did not find out about this until almost by the end of the week because my doctor did not call me and honestly my opinion of my current doctor is extremely low. My primary care doctors organization was the one who detected my cancer at the early stages and help connect me with a surgeon so I feel like I owe a great debt of gratitude to them for essentially saving in my life. However ever since the covid pandemic every nurse and doctor and staff that I did knew in the clinic have all been completely replaced. And I have been less than satisfied with the new staff since then even though the organization name still remains the same. Well whatever I'm just grumbling at this point by using text-to-speech and kind of missing the old community feeling I had with my previous doctors and nurses.
Anyway more importantly, after hearing about the X-ray results I decided to seek a specialist for pain and injuries. Through a recommendation from my friend, I seek one of the best specialist in the city. And her diagnosis was.......
Small potatoes. My injury was minor and was not something worth losing sleep over as I had been doing. Repetitive strain injury from computer work. Tendon injury from overly doing pushups. Possible chance of carpal tunnel, but something like carpal tunnel is not something that could be diagnosed by pain with no numbness through only one week but from several weeks of pain.
So in her care I have begun physical therapy. I'm no stranger to physical therapy. I've done it several times my life and I dread having to do it again. But this time the facility and staff feel and look a lot more professional so it has given me new hope. And after doing physical therapy and having a diagnosis from that famous expert doctor, I realize that I am now in the rehabilitation stage. Up until then I thought this was one of the many times have feel wrist pain and that this is just something I could rest and recover from a few days so I was depressed that I was not seeing any improvements.
Today I just finished my second physical therapy and I've been recommended to do around 8 to see how things go after that point and re-evaluate if need be. And also it turns out that one of the main stretching exercise that I have been doing for years to ward off carpal tunnel syndrome was in fact hindering my recovery during this injury because it causes too much stress on my wrists and I was told to stop. Honestly it's been pretty hard to stop doing the exercise because it's almost a completely built in habit at this point that I do it whenever I take a break and stretch or whenever. Also I was told even after I recover to stop doing push-ups because my wrists are too weak and unable to support my body weight, ha, ha ha ha......
To be honest I'm not a fan of physical therapy because of my prior experience with them and even after these two times I don't feel like the pain in my hand and wrist have really gotten better, if anything it kind of hurts a bit more but who knows. I'll keep an open mind about this and just take it a day at a time. Now that I realize that this isn't just a minor pain that I could just sleep it off and just rest it off but something I have to actively rehabilitate from, I feel like mentally my mind has gone a lot better.
So there you have it this the end of this week's report. In the scope of things going on around the world right now it's extraordinary really minor and like my doctor said Small Potatoes. I hope everyone stay safe out there and I will speak to you again next week.