My right wrist, in particular: I injured it some 15 years ago and it has not been the same since (don't get me started on how much I hate futons!). When it rains, it hurts. And when I've been typing or knitting too much, it hurts. It doesn't hurt where most people with carpal tunnel seems to hurt, on the underside. No, it hurts on the outside, right where that protruding knob is.
The sweater I've been working on is on Knitpicks Options needles, and I don't think this has helped. Normally I work on Denises, but the yarn I am using was too "grabby" on the ,so I switched to the Options. They're metal, and they lack flexibility. They hurt.
So, rather than stop knitting (hah!), I've done two things:
1) I've switched (back) to combination knitting.
2) I've bought some Handeze gloves:
I bought the kind that come up the fingers, since my fingers hurt, too. As far as I can tell, you can only get these on the Handeze.com website.
Don't I look like some kind of snazzy knitting superhero? Batknitter, or Purlgirl. I should be able to shoot hand-dyed wool from my wrists like Spider-Man.
They've been surprisingly helpful so far. Fingers crossed!
1 comment:
PurlGirl! That was super funny - I'm going to tell that to Claire who's always wanting to play superheros w/ her brother. There just aren't enough female superheros that my daughter likes. But my daughter likes to fingerknit!
-bm
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