Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Does she live near a nuclear plant?

Reading notes from another doctor yesterday I discovered this line:

"The pain radiates from her neck into the right shoulder, then down the dorsal aspect of the arm and hand into the 7th & 8th fingers."

15 comments:

  1. spoken like a neurologist.the cervical root origin is more important than the finger.

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  2. Who said 'she' has got to be human?
    Perhaps you got the vet's notes in error...10-toed sloth perhaps?

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  3. I thought only cats displayed that level of polydacyly.

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  4. I hear it's not so bad until you get to number nine.

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  5. I recall one of the most popular boys in grade school had 6 toes. Popularity was much easier then...

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  6. Oh, crap I thought I was going to be the first one to get to use polydactylism in a sentence in comments.

    Use it in a sentence three times and the word is yours for life.

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  7. Huh, which nerve root is involved in that?

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  8. Crap, that kind of made sense to me. Time for an Alzheimber's eval?

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  9. Ha! And at first I thought you meant it because the pain was radiating..

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  10. Yall are making me...nervous.

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  11. Wow - totally embarrased that I was able to read this several times before the 7th and 8th fingers were flagged....off for more tea!

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  12. Well, if the fingers of one hand are numbered 1 to 5, and the fingers of the other hand are numbered 6 to 10, then there is no problem of polydactylism.

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  13. Is this like dentistry, where every tooth is given a unique number? By knowing the number you know exactly which tooth is being discussed?

    Is every finger/thumb given a unique number?

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  14. Sadly, no, each digit is not numbered sequentially across both hands. They are subdivided into Left and Right 1-5.

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  15. Yet all the neurologists probably skipped the "finger" and substituted C7/C8 instead. I know I did... Then had to reread...

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So wadda you think?