Here's My Story

About 2 weeks after last session , I made appointment to consult Lee again because there was no improvement, there was slight pain when I woke up in the morning, and mixing salad using plastic utensils (at Stuff'd) triggered the pain. As uusual, he investigated by pressing and massaging certain parts of the hand and arm and asking for feedback. He concluded that I now have De Quervain's tenosynovitis for real 😮He went on to magically make the pain disappear. Added the following stretching and strengthening exercises, and massage: (1) Palm facing left, with fingers side-by-side. Move thumb to palm and back x30 (2)  Palm facing left, with fingers side-by-side. Move thumb up and down x30 (3) Same as (2) but with rubber band providing resistance. Thumb moves up to the point just before pain sets in. (4) Hold 1 kg dumbbell facing down. Move it slowly down and back to neutral x15. (5) Use tennis ball to massage the forearm's muscle that's aligned with the thumb i.e. the brac...

Don't let the future steal your joy today. - (I don't know who said this) Morbid future, perhaps? If so, I agree with this quote.

Clearly, this is about the D&D 5e adventure book Curse of Strahd.  

Wolfberry in coconut juice at KBN King's Seremban Beef Noodle @Damansara Uptown. They served it only hot i.e. no cold version and rightly so: the infusion from the wolfberry works better when the drink is hot. Refreshing and I imagine it will be so soothing if you have sorethroat and the likes. Costs RM 8.90 though.   Lately Ban had been exploring new recipes for our homecooked dinner. This is one that we both like: stir-fry chicken with brocolli and carrot. It's similar to that served in Chinese restaurants :) There are two stages of stir-frying: first one is to partially cook the chicken; second one is to cook the vegetables before adding back the chicken thereafter.   My attempt of making salmon nigiri sushi by using a sushi rice maker. Had to try a few times: the trick is to compact as much rice as possible, otherwise the block falls apart. Subsequently, I cut the blocks in half (before placing sliced salmon on them) because it's a little large for me.   Customised me...

Sometime last year, Ban fnished designing a ttrpg (tabletop role-playing game) system, including play tested it three times.  We then managed to gather 5 players to play at a friend's house every fortnight. It wasn't easy because we wanted players that we are familiar with, We started with 4 and then few sessions later added the last one. So, on the day of the session, I would drive us to have dinner, pick up a player and then to the venue. One day, upon reaching the dinner venue, I was dismayed to discover that I forgot to bring my wallet. I borrowed money from Ban but I was concerned about not having my driving license with me. We could go home after dinner to retrieve it but traffic on the way home would be heavy by then and we would be late for subsequent rendevous. It was during dinner that I suddenly remembered that it is no longer mandatory to carry the physical driving license card. There is digital copy of it in MyJPJ app. Digital copy of road tax is also there. I took...

Nearly 4 weeks after the surprise consult with the therapist, I decided to make an appointment to formally consult him. I told him that: there didn't seem any more discernible improvement. sometimes the pain was absent and other times it flared up, throughout the day. there didn't seem to be any more pain right at the wrist but solely around the base of the thumb. I no longer wake up with pain. He surmised that the remaining pain was due to (a) me using the phone more. I told him that because he advised me to take regular breaks from using the keyboard and mouse, I shifted to the phone to read news and webnovels. Seems that he was more concerned about typing on keyboard and so I now can resume reading those on the laptop, and/or (b) the increased in the second exercise .  Once again, he massaged the hand, arm and especially the base of the thumb and regularly asked me to test the pain. He stopped once I felt more no pain. I am amazed each time that happened :) I'm to incre...