So I went to see the doctor yesterday and it went pretty well. When I was in the waiting room a drew a line on my hand around the numb area so I could show the doc where it was and so I would know if more sections of my hand regained feeling. I showed the doc:
He looked at it for a second and then asked me if I'd looked that up in an anatomy book. I said no I did it just now in the waiting room. He said that was amazing because it was the exact distribution of the Median nerve. He blew the dust off a crusty anatomy book to show me.
He couldn't get over the fact that I'd drawn that on my hand all by myself. As I was leaving he asked me to come with him around to a couple of other orthopedic surgeons who were milling around the hallways for this awkward kind of doctor show and tell; he'd say to each one "Hey George look how she drew that on her hand!"
"Yep I drew on my hand"
"Oh wow would you look at that!" they'd say, amazed. Apparently doctors find auto-anatomical drawings extraordinarily impressive.
Anyway, when I woke up this morning the motion in my hand was inexplicably and dramatically improved. I can almost make a fist now which is worlds better than it was just yesterday. So yay!
