{"id":303,"date":"2006-06-28T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T11:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=303"},"modified":"2006-06-28T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T11:19:12","slug":"thumbs_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs up"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the morning of June 23 (a week after the steroid injection), my trigger thumb<\/a> symptoms were so mild that I decided to skip using the heating pad and see what happened. Half an hour later, the symptoms had cleared up on their own. The following morning, I awoke symptom-free. So the steroid seems to have worked. My trigger thumb is cured — or perhaps I should say “in remission”, since my father’s experience shows that the symptoms can<\/em> return eventually.
\nToday I visited my ophthalmologist for a routine semiannual examination, and my glaucoma<\/a> is also still in remission. The medication (Xalatan<\/a> at first, and now Travatan<\/a>) has kept my intraocular pressure under control for two and a half years.
\nModern medicine is miraculous. No other word adequately describes it. A disease that could have blinded me is neutralized by putting drops in my eyes once a day. Another ailment that threatened to cripple my hand is banished by a simple injection. I’m also grateful for the dental restoration techniques (crowns and onlays) that have made my brittle middle-aged teeth better than new. And the orthopedic treatment<\/a> that, twenty-six years ago, restored my ability to walk. Miracles, all of them.
\nHistorical note: Movable Type<\/a> tells me that this is my 300th blog post. That’s not a terribly impressive number for a blog that has been in operation for 57 months. Some bloggers<\/a> post multiple times per day<\/em>, while I’ve only averaged a little more that five posts per month. But at least I’m still blogging after almost five years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My trigger thumb is cured — or perhaps I should say “in remission.”
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