well glad you found out what it was. sometimes figuring it out is worse than dealing with it
UPDATE: So I went to the doc for a checkup and had him look at my hand. They did an x-ray and as it turns out it's not arthritis. What it is, is a detachment of a bone in the middle of my hand on my pinky finger. So it's actually a fracture. Plus there some soft tissue damage to the right of it more toward the center of my hand. I have to go to a specialist for corrective surgery. Who would have thought? On the upside, when this is fixed it will be 100% and will be able to bowl. Funny thing is I have bowled since this post but I packed some tape in the thumb to secure my grip and changed the inserts and it didn't hurt afterward. Odd that I've been walking around bowling and I changed the bearing assembly on our Tahoe the other day loosening bolts that were 170 ft lbs and I didn't even know it. The pain hasn't went away since I bowled before this post but it hasn't been horrible. I seen the x-ray's and you can see it plain as day. Now to be clear this was NOT caused by bowling! The only time my hand got injured was over a year ago when this buffoon where I worked slammed into with the bottom of an extension ladder taking it off a truck. I never went to have it looked at, like any other boo-boo I sucked it up and moved on. Funny how things go isn't it?
well glad you found out what it was. sometimes figuring it out is worse than dealing with it
UPDATE: Went to the specialist today. Well the findings were interesting but were still not done. From what he seen on the x-ray he confirmed that the bones in the pinky are in fact detached from my hand. It's a small gap. The bigger concern is the density of that bone. It's far less than my others. He says it's as brittle as a pencil. He's someone baffled at this point of why it's like that. He thinks there is something in the soft tissue causing pressure on it causing the density issue. He also found a small sprain in my wrist. He says it's minor and gave me a steroid injection for it. It will take a long time to heal but he's not worried about it. Next step is an MRI so he can fully see what's going on. In the meantime I did ask the magic question. "Can I bowl?" The fact that I tuck my pinky is a good thing because if I didn't do that then the answer would be no. Since I do I have his approval to bowl all I want. Also, reducing to a 15lb ball would be helpful.
So in the interim I just have to wait to get the MRI done and see him again. I'll update at that time. BTW, absolutely not a single ounce of arthritis so that's a great thing. Not bad for 46
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