Dual Jewelry Deuling Armor - Just what the doctor ordered

Yesterday, I was prescribed bilateral carpal tunnel wrist stabilizers, and I was totally shocked! Apparently, slight numbness, tingling and cold hands, are signs of over use and repetitive strain, I had always thought it was a shooting pain that I had to look out for... so I wasn't expecting to have to ever use splints, needless to say for both arms!! I was totally bummed. :(

Taking them out of the boxes and putting them on was quite a lot to handle. I went from tiny 6 inch wrists to robotic looking 9 inch thick monster things!! But after getting more used to them, and wearing them for the last 15 hours I've got feeling in my wrists and the tingling is almost gone! Yay! It also helped that my boyfriend said my new arms reminded him of one of his favorite video game characters- Tifa from Final Fantasy 7! (Which is a pretty huge deal! She is probably his most favorite of all time!)

So I see the doc in a month, and I am supposed to wear these for almost 24 hours a day until I see her, exceptions being showers and hand washing or splint washing, I even get to wear them to bed! So I'm brainstorming about all the cool things I could accessorize with, like anklet length bracelets or just embellishing my straps with Swarovski crystals... Might as well make them part of my outfits, no need for my new arms to make me look shabby!

So I now consider them my Jewelry Making Armor. Not to mention how super advertising these seem to be!!! It's almost like wearing a uniform that people are pretty curious about. "What happened to your arms?" Then they are begging to see your work and take a business card, instead of thinking oh she just makes jewelry :) I could do that.

So I'll be taking a few days of rest, and I'll also be away from my work computer from March 20 - 30 visiting family, advertising and other non-hand heavy work and celebrating quite a few birthdays, including my Mom's on the 20th and my own on the 27th!!

I'll still be able to answer questions and send out tutorials, just a little longer of a delay than usual! Oh, and the little earring is from my 3d bicone star tutorial, I'll be finalizing it over my little hiatus.

Have fun everyone, I'm sure I'll have tons of post-birthday news to share! Take care of those wrists!!